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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).
![]() JS Ashigara in May 2010
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Namesake | Mount Ashigara |
Ordered | 2003 |
Builder | Mitsubishi, Nagasaki |
Laid down | 6 April 2005 |
Launched | 30 August 2006 |
Commissioned | 13 March 2008 |
Homeport | Sasebo |
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Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Atago class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 560 ft (170 m) |
Beam | 68.9 ft (21.0 m) |
Draft | 20.3 ft (6.2 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
Range |
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Complement | 300 |
Sensors and processing systems | AN/SPY-1D(V) |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 x SH-60K helicopter |
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
editThis 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
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JS Ashigara on 3 June 2007
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JS Ashigara and JS Asahi on 2 January 2017
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JS Ashigara on 21 July 2017
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JS Ashigara on 25 November 2017
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JS Ashigara on 18 August 2020
Notes
edit- ^ Seawaves,"Warships Supporting Earthquake in Japan" Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "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.
- ^ "JS ISE (DDH 182) arrived at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii". Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force.
External links
edit- Media related to JS Ashigara (DDG-178) at Wikimedia Commons
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/7700ton.htm