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). Constructed in the 1990s, the Kongō-class are equipped with the Aegis fire control system, being one of the few ship classes outside of the United States to have that capability.

In the 2010s, the Kongō and Atago-classes were modified to serve in a theater missile defense role, with the primary intention of countering North Korean ballistic missiles.

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 Mk.15 Phalanx Blk.1B CIWS

Unit Run

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

Related Developments

 * Atago-class Guided Missile Destroyer
 * Yukinami-class Guided Missile Destroyer

Comparable Vessels

 * Arleigh Burke-class
 * Fridtjof Nansen-class
 * Hobart-class
 * Ontario-class
 * Sejong the Great-class
 * Ticonderoga-class
 * Álvaro de Bazán-class