INS Hanit
type: corvette
class: Saar 5 (Eilat)
code number: 503
shipyard: Litton Ingalls Shipbuilding
launched: March 1994
handed over to the service: 7.2. 1995
home port: Haifa
crew: 74
length: 85.64 m
width: 11.88 m
draft: 3.17 m
displacement: 1275 tons
speed: 33 knots
drive: CODOG
1 x General Electric LM-2500 turbine
2 x MTU 12V1163 TB82 diesel
equipment:
2 x 4 bullets Harpoon
8 x shot Gabriel II
2 x Barak vertical launchers
1 x Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS
6 x 32 Mk 32 launchers for Mk 46 torpedoes
Atelef AS-565SA helicopter
The ship was hit on July 17, 2006 during the shelling of Beirut International Airport. It was probably hit by a radar-guided missile land-sea C-802 Iranian production fired by the Hezbollah movement. The first missile, flying at a higher altitude, missed and hit a nearby merchant ship with an Egyptian crew, the second, flying just above the surface, hit the ship in the helicopter deck at the stern. The damaged ship was towed back to its home port. Four crew members were killed.
type: corvette
class: Saar 5 (Eilat)
code number: 503
shipyard: Litton Ingalls Shipbuilding
launched: March 1994
handed over to the service: 7.2. 1995
home port: Haifa
crew: 74
length: 85.64 m
width: 11.88 m
draft: 3.17 m
displacement: 1275 tons
speed: 33 knots
drive: CODOG
1 x General Electric LM-2500 turbine
2 x MTU 12V1163 TB82 diesel
equipment:
2 x 4 bullets Harpoon
8 x shot Gabriel II
2 x Barak vertical launchers
1 x Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS
6 x 32 Mk 32 launchers for Mk 46 torpedoes
Atelef AS-565SA helicopter
The ship was hit on July 17, 2006 during the shelling of Beirut International Airport. It was probably hit by a radar-guided missile land-sea C-802 Iranian production fired by the Hezbollah movement. The first missile, flying at a higher altitude, missed and hit a nearby merchant ship with an Egyptian crew, the second, flying just above the surface, hit the ship in the helicopter deck at the stern. The damaged ship was towed back to its home port. Four crew members were killed.
