Takatsuki-class destroyer

JS Nagatsuki (DD-167)
Class overview
Name: Takatsuki class destroyer
Builders:
Operators:  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Preceded by:
Succeeded by: Hatsuyuki-class destroyer
Built: 1964 - 1970
In commission: 1967 - 2003
Planned: 4
Completed: 4
Retired: 4
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement:
  • 3,100 long tons (3,150 t) standard
  • 4,500 long tons (4,572 t) full load
Length: 136.0 m (446 ft 2 in) overall
Beam: 13.4 m (44 ft 0 in)
Draft: 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in)
Propulsion:
  • 60,000 shp (45 MW), 2 shafts
  • (Takatsuki and Nagatsuki)
  • 2 × Mitsubishi/WH reaction/impulse steam turbines
  • 2 × Mitsubishi CE water tube boilers
  • (Kikuzuki)
  • 2 × Mitsubishi/EW impulse steam turbines
  • 2 × Mitsubishi CE water tube boilers
  • (Mochizuki)
  • 2 × Kawasaki Model NH-300 impulse steam turbines
  • 2 × Kawasaki Model BD-120-1 water tube boilers
Speed: 32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h)
Range: 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h)
Complement:
  • 270 (Takatsuki, 1967),
  • 260 (Takatsuki, 1985)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • OPS-11B EWR, OPS-17 SSR, AN/SQS-23, AN/SQS-35(J),
  • OPS-11C EWR (1986)
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • NOLR-1B,
  • NOLQ-1 (1986)
Armament:
  • (Takatsuki, 1967)
  • 2 × Mk.42 5 in (127 mm) guns
  • 1 × (VIII) ASROC
  • 1 × (IV) Bofors 375 mm (15 in) ASW rocket launcher
  • 2 × (III) Mk.32 ASW torpedo tubes
  • 2 × QH-50D DASH anti-submarine drone helicopter
  • (Kikuzuki, 1986)
  • 1 × Mk.42 5 in (127 mm) gun
  • 2 × (IV) RGM-84 Harpoon
  • 1 × (VIII) Mk.29 Sea Sparrow
  • 1 × Mk.15 CIWS
  • 1 × (VIII) ASROC
  • 1 × (IV) Bofors 375 mm (15 in) ASW rocket launcher
  • 2 × (III) Mk.32 ASW torpedo tubes

The Takatsuki class destroyer was a vessel of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. It was the predecessor of the Hatsuyuki-class destroyer, and was mainly used for anti-submarine warfare duties.

In 1985-1988, Takatsuki and Kikuzuki were upgraded with Sea Sparrow SAM launchers, Harpoon missile anti-ship missile launchers, Phalanx CIWS systems (Kikuzuki only), new FCS (FCS-2-12) fire control radar and TASS. Mochizuki and Nagatsuki were in the upgrade program, but were eventually not upgraded.

Ships

Building no.Pennant no.NameLaid downLaunchedCompletedDecommissioned
2304DD-164Takatsuki8 October 19647 January 196615 March 196716 August 2002
2305DD-165Kikuzuki15 March 1966March 25, 196727 March 19686 November 2003
2306DD-166/
ASU-7019		Mochizuki22 November 196615 March 196825 March 1969Converted to ASU-7019 on 16 March 1995, decommissioned on 19 March 1999
2307DD-167Nagatsuki2 March 196819 March 196912 February 19701 April 1996,
sunk as target off 3 August 1998

Books

  • The Maru Special, Ships of the JMSDF No.57 Takatsuki class escort vessels, Ushio Shobō (Japan), November 1981
  • The Maru Special, Ships of the JMSDF No.78 Electronics weapons, Power Plants and Helicopters, Ushio Shobō (Japan), August 1983


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