INS Magen (English: Shield) is a Sa'ar 6-class corvette of the Israeli Navy's Shayetet 3 fleet.

Elbit Systems has been awarded the contract to design and build the electronic warfare (EW) suites for the ships.

[citation needed] The Sa'ar 6-class vessels have a displacement of almost 1,900 tons at full load and is 90 m (295 ft 3 in) long.

They are armed with an Oto Melara 76 mm main gun, two Typhoon Weapon Stations, 32 vertical launch cells for Barak-8 surface-to-air missiles, 40 cells for the C-Dome point defense system, 16 anti-ship missiles Gabriel V.[4][5] the EL/M-2248 MF-STAR AESA radar, and two 324 mm (12.8 in) torpedo launchers.

[10] It was also deployed in the red sea following Houthi attacks on Israeli and non-Israeli ships during the Red Sea crisis[11][12] On 8 April 2024 the C-Dome battery of the Sa'ar 6-class corvette INS Magen scored the first operational interception of the system when it shot down a UAV drone near Eilat.