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Sukanya -class patrol vessel
SLNS Sayura is a sukanya -class patrol vessel. It was built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited.
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INS Sarayu
Sarayu River
Hindustan Shipyard Limited
25 June 1988
16 October 1989
8 October 1991
1 November 2000
INS Virbahu, Visakhapatnam
Pennant number : P54
Sold to Sri Lanka Navy 1 November 2000
1 November 2000
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Sukanya -class patrol vessel
1,890 tons (full load)
101 m (331 ft)
11.5 m (38 ft)
2 × diesel engines , 12,800 bhp (9,540 kW), 2 shafts
22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
140 (incl 15 officers)
1 × Racal Decca 2459 search radar 1 BEL 1245 navigation radar
1 × 40 mm, 60-cal Bofors anti-aircraft gun 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns
1 HAL Chetak
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SLNS Sayura equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Sri LankaNavy exact named equipment holdings: Sayura (ex-IND Sukanya) (capacity 1 med hel). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PATROL AND COASTAL COMBATANTS / PSOH. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.