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The ''Kasturi''-class corvettes are two ships of the Royal Malaysian Navy, KD ''Kasturi'' (F25) and KD ''Lekir'' (F26). They were acquired in the mid-1980s. The two ships constitute the Malaysian Navy's 22nd Corvette Squadron, their homeport being Lumut. After about 25 years of service, they underwent an extensive modernisation known as Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) starting in 2009, enabling them to be employed for another 10 to 15 years. They have since been returned to active duty. The two ships of the class are named after Hang Kasturi and Hang Lekir, two heroic figures from the Malay 15th-century epic narrative Hikayat Hang Tuah. They share this characteristic with the two s KD ''Lekiu'' and KD ''Jebat'', as well as the old frigate-turned-trainingship , all of which are named after figures from the epic as well. ==Characteristics== The class was ordered in February 1981, and built by the German Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) shipyard. Both ships were simultaneously launched on 14 May 1983 and commissioned on 15 August 1984. Two more were planned, but were never ordered.〔Gardiner and Chumbly, p.258〕 The ''Kasturi'' class is based off HDW's FS 1500 design.〔 The two ships constitute the Royal Malaysian Navy's 22nd Corvette Squadron. Their homeport is Lumut at the west coast of the Malayan Peninsula, facing the Strait of Malacca and the Indian Ocean. In August 2009, a Service Life Extension Programme (SLEP) was awarded to Boustead Heavy Industries to overhaul the aging corvettes, with work to be carried out locally at the Boustead Naval Shipyard in Lumut. By this time, KD ''Kasturi'' had reportedly not been operational since 2007, and it would eventually take almost seven years for her to resume operational status in early 2014. KD ''Lekiu'' remained in active duty until the SLEP work on her began in October 2011 and was completed in November 2014. The SLEP is estimated to have extended the corvettes' service life by around 15 years.〔 Despite the work being incomplete on KD ''Lekiu'' at that time, both ships participated in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in March 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kasturi-class corvette」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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