INS Nitzachon

INS Nitzachon is a Sa'ar 6-class corvette of the Israeli Navy's Shayetet 3 Flotilla.

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,[5][6] the EL/M-2248 MF-STAR AESA radar, and two 324 mm (12.8 in) torpedo launchers.

[9] Her maiden voyage from Kiel to Haifa took 12 days and being the last ship of its class to arrive, she was joined aboard by the Navy’s top officers for the final leg arriving into Haifa on the morning of the 30th of August 2021 in parade formation joined by most of the Israeli Navy’s fleet.