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YUBARI frigates (1983 - 1984)

Yubari 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
ゆうばり [Yubari] DE227   Sumitomo, Uraga 9.2.1981 22.2.1982 18.3.1983 stricken 6.2010
ゆうべつ [Yubetsu] DE228   Hitachi, Maizuru 14.1.1982 25.1.1983 14.2.1984 stricken 6.2010

 

Displacement standard, t

1470

Displacement full, t

1760

Length, m

91.0

Breadth, m

10.8

Draught, m

3.60 mean hull

No of shafts

2

Machinery

CODOG: 1 Kawasaki-Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-3B gas turbine / 1 Mitsubishi 6DRV35/44 diesel

Power, h. p.

28390 / 5000

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

diesel / gas turbine oil

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84C), 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact, 2 x 3 - 324 HOS-302 TT, 1 x 4 - 375 type 71 ASWRL

Electronic equipment

OPS-19B, OPS-28C, FCS-2-21B radars, OQS-4 (SQS-36D(J)) sonar, NOLQ-6C, OLT-3, OLR-9B ECM suites, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, OYQ-5 CCS

Complement

98

 

Project history: An improved and slightly enlarged Ishikari, with improved accommodation and increased fuel capacity. The second ship was ordered under the FYB0-81 programme, but no further ships appeared. Phalanx CIWS was part of the original design, but was never fitted.

Modernizations: late 1990s, both: - 2 Harpoon SSM (totally 1 x 4 + 1 x 2)

Naval service: No significant events.

Yubetsu 1987

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