INS Kirpan is the name of a Khukri-class corvette formerly commissioned by the Indian Navy.

[3] It was recently decommissioned and handed over to Vietnam People's Navy in a ceremony presided over by Adm. R. Hari Kumar and Rear Adm. Pham Manh Hung, Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Staff, Vietnam People's Navy.

[4] It is the first active warship that India has ever gifted to another country, that is the Vietnam People's Navy, which will use it in the future with as Ship 26.

[5] It is another in a long list of warships gifted by India to other countries.

The indigenously built missile corvette INS Kirpan entered Cam Ranh International Port on July 8 after sailing out of Visakhapatnam on 29 June 2023 [6] and was to be officially handed over to Vietnamese People’s Navy by month end.