JS Shiranui underway on 28 February 2019.
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History | |
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Japan | |
Name |
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Namesake | Shiranui |
Owner | Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force |
Builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki |
Laid down | 20 May 2016 |
Launched | 12 October 2017 |
Commissioned | 27 February 2019 |
Identification | Pennant number: DD-120 |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Asahi-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 151 m (495 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 18.3 m (60 ft 0 in) |
Draft | 5.4 m (17 ft 9 in) |
Depth | 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in) |
Propulsion | COGLAG, two shafts, two GE LM2500 turbines |
Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement | 230 |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × SH-60K helicopter |
Shiranui (DD-120) is the second ship of the Asahi-class destroyer of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Her namesake came from “Phosphorescent Light ”.
The procurement of the destroyer began in 2013 in response to the reduction in the number of destroyers (namely the Template:Sclass-) within the JMSDF. The two major characteristics of this destroyer is its bigger emphasis on anti-submarine warfare and the adoption of the COGLAG (combined gas turbine electric and gas turbine) propulsion system. A second destroyer was procured a year later.[1][2]
She was laid down on 20 May 2016 and launched on 12 October 2017. Commissioned on 27 February 2019 with the hull number DD-120.[3]