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KRI Layang

FPB-57 patrol boat of Indonesian Navy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ7357544 ↗
Source-derived summary

KRI Layang (635) is a FPB-57 Nav V patrol boat currently operated by the Indonesian Navy.

Service history

Layang was built by Lürrsen-Werft, fitted out by PT PAL and launched in 2000. The ship was commissioned in 2000.

On 22 April 2021, she was deployed off Bali in search for KRI Nanggala, which went missing off the waters of Bali during a torpedo drill. The navy had deployed six additional ships to the area which were KRI Dr. Soeharso, KRI Hasan Basri, KRI Karel Satsuit Tubun, KRI Singa, KRI Hiu and KRI Layang.

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“KRI Layang” enters the record as fPB-57 patrol boat of Indonesian Navy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Layang, FPB-57 and patrol can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “KRI Layang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.