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JAPAN MARITIME SELF-DEFENCE FORCE (JAPAN)

TORPEDO SHIPS

ASAHI missile destroyers

similar Akizuki 2015

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
あさひ [Asahi] DD119   Mitsubishi, Nagasaki 4.8.2015 19.10.2016 7.3.2018 in service (2019)
しらぬい [Shiranui] DD120   Mitsubishi, Nagasaki 20.5.2016 12.10.2017 27.2.2019 in service (2019)

  

Displacement standard, t

5100

Displacement full, t

6850

Length, m

151.0

Breadth, m

17.6 wl 18.3 oa

Draught, m

5.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

COGLAG: 2 IHI- General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines + gas turbine-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

56000 + 6800 = 62800

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

gas turbine oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 4 SSM-4 SSM (8 SSM-4), 1 x 16 x4 ESSM SAM / SUM-07 ASuM (VLS, 16 RIM-162 +12 SUM-07), 1 x 1 - 127/62 Mk 45 mod. 5, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx Block 1B, 2 x 3 - 324 HOS-303 TT, 1 helicopter (SH-60K Seahawk)

Electronic equipment

OPS-20C, OPY-1, 2x Mk 90 radars, OQQ-24, OQR-4 sonars, NOLQ-3D, NORC-4B ECM suites, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, FAJ, MOD torpedo decoys, OYQ-11 CCS

Complement

230

 

Project history: Enhanced version of Akizuki class with new electronics and propulsion plant. VLS will have only 16 cells (for quad pack of ESSM SAMs and home-designed SUM-07 ASW missiles) but can be enlarged to 32 cells, volumes are reserved.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: None.

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