KD Sri Indera Sakti

KD Sri Indera Sakti is 4,300-ton, 100-meter multi-role support ship of the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) based in the Lumut Naval Base in Perak, Malaysia.

KD Sri Indera Sakti
History
Malaysia
Name	KD Sri Indera Sakti
Builder	Bremer Vulkan
Launched	1 July 1980
Commissioned	1980
Identification	IMO number: 7928574 Hull number: 1503
Status	In active service
General characteristics
Class & type	Sri Indera Sakti-class support ship
Displacement	4,300 long tons (4,369 t) full load
Length	100 m (328 ft 1 in)
Beam	15 m (49 ft 3 in)
Draught	4.75 m (15 ft 7 in)
Propulsion	2 diesels, 2 shafts, 2 CPP by Schaffran Propeller + Service GmbH VK72/4 5,986 bhp (4,464 kW)
Speed	16.8 knots (19.3 mph; 31.1 km/h)
Capacity	600 troops 1,000 m³ cargo space 10 × 20-foot containers 680 m² vehicle space
Complement	136 + 75 passengers
Armament	1 × Bofors 57 mm gun 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns
Aviation facilities	Helicopter landing platform

Major operation

The ship was sent to Somali waters to take over the role of the similar KD Mahawangsa to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden in December 2008. In the same month, it successfully aided Chinese crane ship MV Zhenhua 4.^[1]

In 2009, KD Sri Indera Sakti dispatched two helicopters that successfully repelled two Somali pirate skiffs attempting to capture the Indian tanker MT Abul Kalam Azad.^[2]