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{{Infobox ship image| Ship image=סער 4.5.JPG | Ship caption=INS Kidon underway, 2012
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Israel | Israel|naval}} | Ship name=Kidon | Ship namesake=Javelin | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Israel Shipyards Ltd. | Ship yard number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=1997 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship fate= | Ship status=Active | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat | Ship displacement=- 488 tonnes (full load)
- 430 tonnes (standard)
| 61.7|m|ft|2|abbr=on}} | 7.62|m|ft|2|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 2.8|m|ft|2|abbr=on}} | 16,000|shp|abbr=on}} | 34|kn|km/h|0}} | Ship range={{convert|4,800|nmi|km|-2}} at 19 knots (35 km/h){{convert|2,200|nmi|km|-2}} at 30 knots (56 km/h) | Ship boats=1 Rigid hull inflatable boat | Ship complement=53 officers and crewmen | Ship sensors=- Elta EL/M-2218S air search radar
- Elta EL/M-2221 fire-control radar
| Ship EW=- Elbit chaff rocket launchers
- Rafael RF corner reflector
- Elisra NS-9003A/9005 RWR
| Ship armament=- 8 x RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles
- 16 x Barak 1 surface-to-air missiles
- 1 x OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun
- 2 x {{convert|0.5|in|mm|2|abbr=on}} caliber M2 Browning machine guns
- 3 x 7.62 mm FN MAG 58 general-purpose machine guns
- 1 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
| Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes=
}} | The INS Kidon ({{lang-he|אח"י כידון}}, lit. Javelin) is a Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat of the Israeli Navy, built by Israel Shipyards Ltd. and commissioned in 1997.[1] The ship is not the first to use this name, named after the previous Sa'ar 4-class missile boat. The newer ship comprising various systems dismantled from older Sa'ar 4 INS Kidon hull.[2] See alsoReferences1. ^{{cite book |last=Imbar |first=Moshe |date=2015 |title=The 3td Flotilla - The Israel Navy Fast Missile Boats |trans-title= |url= |language=Hebrew |location=Pages: 130-131 |publisher=Ministry of Defense publishing|isbn=}}
2. ^Hetz/Nirit Sa'ar 4.5 Unit List - GlobalSecurity.org http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/hetz-list.htm
External links- World Navies Today: Israel
- [https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1skOrC9mLjn4bxyc1AzvVQRnYNkOqMmb3Fa1wtlY#rows:id=1 Google Data]
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