Kongou-class Guided Missile Destroyer

The Kongō-class Guided Missile Destroyer (こんごう型護衛艦 Kongō-gata Goeikan?) serves as the core ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF)'s Escort Flotillas. They are a modification of the United States Navy's Arleigh Burke-class (Flight I).

Specifications

 * Type: Guided Missile Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DDG)
 * Service Period: 1993-Present
 * Characteristics
 * Length: 528.2 feet (161 meters)
 * Beam: 68.9 feet (21 meters)
 * Draft: 20.3 feet (6.19 meters)
 * Displacement: 7,250 tons (Standard); 9,500 tons (Full Load)
 * Crew: 300
 * Propulsion: COGAG, 2 x shafts, 2 x controllable pitch propellors
 * 4 x Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
 * 3 x Allison 501-K34 gas turbine main power generators, (7,500 kW)
 * Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,112 kilometers) at 20 knots (37.04 km/h)
 * Speed: 30 Knots (55.56 km/hr)
 * Sensor Suite
 * AN/SPY-1D Air Search Radar x 4 - upgraded to AN/SPY-1D(V)
 * OPS-28D Surface Search Radar
 * OPS-20 Navigation Radar
 * AN/SPQ-62 Fire Control Radar x 4
 * OQS-102 Bow Mounted Sonar
 * OQR-2 Towed Array Sonar
 * Countermeasures:
 * NOLQ-2 Electronic Countermeasures Suite
 * AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
 * Mk.137 6-barreled decoy launchers x 4
 * Armament
 * 1 x 127mm/54-caliber Oto-Melara Compact Gun
 * Mk.41 Mod 6 VLS (1 x 29+61-cell) - (fires RIM-66M-5 SM-2ER Blk.3B, RUM-139 VL-ASROC, RIM-161 SM-3, RIM-162 ESSM, RIM-174 SM-6)
 * 2 x Mk.141 SSM Launchers (fires RGM-84 Harpoon or Type 90 AShMs)
 * 2 x Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (6 x Mk.46 or Type 73 lightweight torpedoes)
 * 2 x 20mm/70-caliber Phalanx CIWS

Unit Run

 * JS Kongou (DDG-173)
 * JS Kirishima (DDG-174)
 * JS Myoko (DDG-175)
 * JS Choukai (DDG-176)