JS Ashigara
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).
Ashigara (DDG-178) in 2015 | |
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Name: | Ashigara (DDG-178) |
Namesake: | Mount Ashigara |
Ordered: | 2003 |
Builder: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Nagasaki |
Laid down: | April 6, 2005 |
Launched: | August 30, 2006 |
Commissioned: | 13 March 2008 |
Homeport: | Sasebo |
Identification: | MMSI number: 431999689 |
Status: | In Service |
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Class and type: | Atago class destroyer |
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Length: | 560 ft (170 m) |
Beam: | 68.9 ft (21.0 m) |
Draft: | 20.3 ft (6.2 m) |
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Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
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Complement: | 300 |
Sensors and processing systems: | AN/SPY-1D(V) |
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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
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]
Notes
- 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 – via YouTube.com.