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HATAKAZE missile destroyers (1986 - 1988)

Hatakaze 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
はたかぜ [Hatakaze] DDG171   Mitsubishi, Nagasaki 20.5.1983 9.11.1984 27.3.1986 in service (2019)
しまかぜ [Shimakaze] DDG172   Mitsubishi, Nagasaki 13.1.1985 30.1.1987 23.3.1988 in service (2019)

  

Displacement standard, t

4650

Displacement full, t

5600

Length, m

143.0 pp 150.0 oa

Breadth, m

16.4

Draught, m

4.80 hull

No of shafts

2

Machinery

COGAG: 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3D gas turbines + 2 Rolls-Royce Spey SM-1A gas turbines

Power, h. p.

49400 + 26650 = 72000

Max speed, kts

30

Fuel, t

gas turbine oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 6000(20)

Armament

2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 1 x 1 Standard SM-1MR SAM (40 RIM-66), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42 mod. 7, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 type 68 TT, helicopter deck

Electronic equipment

OPS-28B, OPS-11C, SPS-52C, 2x SPG-51C, 2x FCS-2-21C, 2x Mk 90 radars, OQS-4 mod. 1 sonar, NOLQ-1-3, OLR-9B ECM suites, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, OYQ-4-1 CCS

Complement

260

 

Project history: First unit ordered under 1981 budget, second under 1983 programme. A third unit was requested in 1985 but refused. Although both fitted with helicopter platform (HHS-2 or Sea Hawk operated), they have no hangar. They provide AAW defence for Escort Flotillas to which they are allocated

 

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Shimakaze 2008

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