Atago-class Guided Missile Destroyer
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The Atago-class Guided Missile Destroyer is a class of four destroyers used in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force from 2007 onwards. It is an improved variant of the Kongou-class DDGs that entered service in the 1990s. The Atago-class replaced the Tachikaze-class destroyers that were in service since 1973. They will be complemented by the Yukinami-class from 2020 onwards.
Specifications[edit | edit source]
- Type: Guided Missile Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DDG)
- Built: 2004-2011
- Service Period: 2007-Present
- Characteristics
- Length: 560 ft (170.69 meters)
- Beam: 68 ft 10.8 in (21 meters)
- Draught: 20 ft 3.6 in (6.19 meters)
- Displacement: 7,700-8,200 tons (Standard), 10,000-10,250 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 300
- Propulsion: 4 x Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30IEC gas turbines, 2 shafts 5-bladed CP props, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
- 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(V) Air Search Radar
- OPS-28E Surface Search Radar
- OPS-20B Navigation Radar
- AN/SPG-62 Fire Control Radar x 4
- AN/SPQ-9B Gun Fire Control Radar
- OQS-102 Bow Sonar
- OQR-2D-1 Towed Array Sonar
- Countermeasures:
- NOLQ-2B Electronic Warfare System
- Mark 36 Mod 12 SBROC
- Armament
- 1 x 5"/62-caliber Mk.45 mod 4 lightweight naval gun
- 1 x Mk.41 mod 20 VLS (64+32) (fires RIM-66M5 SM-2ER, RUM-139 VL-ASROC, RIM-161 SM-3, RIM-162C ESSM, RIM-174 SM-6)
- 2 x Mk.141 SSM Launchers (fires Type 90 and Type 17 AShMs)
- 2 x 12.75" Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (fires Mk.46 mod 5 lightweight torpedoes)
- 2 x 20mm/70-caliber Mk.15 mod 25 Phalanx CIWS
- Aircraft Carried: 1 x Mitsubishi SH-60J/K Seahawk maritime helicopter
- Aviation Facilities: Flight deck and enclosed hangar for one helicopter
Unit Run[edit | edit source]
Batch I[edit | edit source]
- JS Atago (DDG-177)
- JS Ashigara (DDG-178)
Batch II[edit | edit source]
- JS Maya (DDG-179)
- JS Haguro (DDG-180)
