Komandarm Fedko-class oiler

History

INS Jyoti was constructed by the Admiralty Shipyard of St. Petersburg, Russia. It was built to be a Project 15966M merchant tanker, but was modified and purchased by the Indian Navy, and commissioned on 20 July 1996. The ship was based at Bombay, where it arrived in November 2006. It is deployed as a major force multiplier in sustaining the navy's blue water operations. It can increase the range of a naval task force without tanker support from seven days and 2,400 nautical miles (4,400 km; 2,800 mi) to 50 days and 16,800 nautical miles (31,100 km; 19,300 mi). INS Jyoti visited Shanghai in 2003, and participated in exercises by the Indian and Singapore navies in 2010.

Qinghaihu was laid down in January 1989 at the Kherson Shipyard as Vladimir Peregudov. In 1992, China bought the incomplete ship from Ukraine for $10 million. The ship sailed nearly complete to Dalian, China in 1993, and completed by the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company. She was commissioned into the PLAN on 5 August 1996 and assigned to the South Sea Fleet.