JS Ashigara

Atago-class guided missile destroyer
JS Ashigara in May 2010
History
Japan
Name
  • Ashigara
  • (あしがら)
NamesakeMount Ashigara
Ordered2003
BuilderMitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down6 April 2005
Launched30 August 2006
Commissioned13 March 2008
HomeportSasebo
Identification
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class and typeAtago class destroyer
Displacement
  • 7700 tons standard
  • 10,000+ tons full load
Length560 ft (170 m)
Beam68.9 ft (21.0 m)
Draft20.3 ft (6.2 m)
Propulsion
  • 4 Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines;
  • two shafts,
  • 100,000 shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed30 knots (56 km/h)
Range
  • 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots
  • (8,334 km at 37 km/h)
Complement300
Sensors and
processing systems		AN/SPY-1D(V)
Armament
  • 1 × 5 inch (127mm/L62) Mk-45 Mod 4 naval gun in a stealth-shaped mount. (Made by Japan Steel Works licensed from its original manufacturer).
  • 2 × missile canister up to 8 Type 90 (SSM-1B)
  • 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (6 × Mk-46 or Type 73 torpedoes)
  • 96-cell Mk-41 VLS:
  • (64 at the bow / 32 cells at the stern aft) for a mix of:
  • SM-2MR Standard Missile
  • SM-3 Anti-Ballistic Missile
  • RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC (Anti-Submarine)
  • RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow
Aircraft carried1 x SH-60K helicopter

JS Ashigara (DDG-178) is an Atago-class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Ashigara was named for Mount Ashigara, and is the first Japanese ship to bear the prefix JS (Japanese Ship) instead of JDS (Japanese Defense Ship).

She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on April 6, 2005, launched on August 30, 2006; and was commissioned on 13 March 2008.

Service

This ship was one of several in the JMSDF fleet participating in disaster relief after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[1]

In late April 2017, the Ashigara along with the JS Samidare joined the US Navy's Carrier Strike Group 1 as the Strike Group moved into position off the Korean peninsula in response to escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States over the DPRK's nuclear weapons program.[2]

Ashigara and the JS Ise participated in the RIMPAC exercises in the waters around Hawaii on August 17-30, 2020.[3]

Gallery

  • JS Ashigara on 3 June 2007
    JS Ashigara on 3 June 2007
  • JS Ashigara and JS Asahi on 2 January 2017
    JS Ashigara and JS Asahi on 2 January 2017
  • JS Ashigara on 21 July 2017
    JS Ashigara on 21 July 2017
  • JS Ashigara on 25 November 2017
    JS Ashigara on 25 November 2017
  • JS Ashigara on 18 August 2020
    JS Ashigara on 18 August 2020

Notes

  1. ^ Seawaves,"Warships Supporting Earthquake in Japan" Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "USS Carl Vinson Strike Group Sails Towards North Korea". Gung Ho Vids. 28 April 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via YouTube.com.
  3. ^ "JS ISE (DDH 182) arrived at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii". Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force.


External links

Media related to JS Ashigara (DDG-178) at Wikimedia Commons

  • http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/7700ton.htm
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