India hands over missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam: India has gifted its in-service missile corvette INS Kirpan to Vietnam to robust the strategic partnership between the two nations, especially in the maritime domain.
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The frontline warship was handed over to Vietnam, during an official visit of Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar.
It is for the first time that India gifted a fully operational corvette to any friendly foreign country.
INS Kirpan was an indigenously built Khukri-class missile corvette, commissioned in 1991.
