Amatsukaze 1965
Amatsukaze 1975
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| あまつかぜ [Amatsukaze] | DDG163 | Mitsubishi Zosen, Nagasaki | 29.11.1962 | 5.10.1963 | 15.2.1965 | stricken 11.1995 |
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Displacement standard, t |
3050 |
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Displacement full, t |
4000 |
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Length, m |
131.0 |
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Breadth, m |
13.4 |
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Draught, m |
4.20 max |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 sets Ishikawajima General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Ishikawajima Foster Wheeler boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
60000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
33 |
|
Fuel, t |
oil 900 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 7000(18) |
|
Armament |
1 x 1 Tartar SAM (40 RIM-24), 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 - 483 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL |
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Electronic equipment |
OPS-16, SPS-29A, SPS-39, 2x SPG-51B, SPG-34 radars, SQS-4A, SQR-8 sonars, NOLR-1B ECM suite |
|
Complement |
290 |
Project history: Amatsukaze was the first guided missile ship built in Japan. She required a little over two years to build, a remarkably short time. The Tartar system was applied from the US. Her flush deck design gives a clean appearance, and because of her clean quarterdeck many publications mistakenly credit her with the capacity to handle a helicopter.
Modernizations: 1967: - 2 - 483 TT, SPS-39 radar, SQS-4A, SQR-8 sonars, + 2 x 3 - 324 TT, SPS-52 radar, SQS-23 sonar
1968: + 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5A)
1978: - 1 x 1 Tartar SAM, 2x SPG-51B radars; + 1 x 1 Standard SM-1MR SAM (40 RIM-66A), 2x SPG-51C radars
mid-1980s: - NOLR-1B ECM suite; + NOLR-6B, OLR-9B, OLT-3 ECM suites, 2x SRBOC Mk 36 decoy RL
Naval service: No significant events.
Amatsukaze 1980
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