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Destroyer JS Murasame (DD-101)

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Classification

Ship class:
Murasame-class destroyer
Type:
Destroyer

Basic information

Namesake:
Murasame (1958)
Operator:
Japan Maritime Self-Defense ForceJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Country of build:
Builder:
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd (IHI Corporation)
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active
MMSI number:
431999532

Ship measurements

Displacement:
6,200 t
Length:
151 m
Beam:
17.4 m
Draft:
5.2 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
COGAG
Propulsion:
  • 2 * Ishikawajima Harima Industries (IHI)/General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines
  • 2 * Kawasaki/Rolls-Royce Spey SM-1C gas turbines, 60000 shp (45 MW)
  • 2 * shafts / 2 * controllable pitch propellers
Speed:
30 knots

Personnel

Complement:
165

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • OPS-25B Radar
  • OPS-28D Surface Search Radar
  • OPS-20 Navigational Radar
  • OQS-5 Sonar
  • OQR-2 Towed Sonar
  • Type 81 Fire Control System
  • NOLQ-3 ECM system
  • Mark 36 SRBOC Chaff Dispensers
  • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie
Armament:
  • 1 * 76 mm 62cal rapid fire gun (OTO Melara 3)
  • 2 * missile canister up to 8 Type 90 (SSM-1B)
  • 2 * 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 * Type 68 triple torpedo tubes
  • VLS Mk 48 (16 cells):
  • Evolved Sea Sparrow SAM VLS Mk 41 (16 cells)
  • RUM-139 VL ASROC
Aircraft:
  • 1 * SH-60J/K Seahawk anti-submarine helicopter

JS Murasame is the lead vessel of the Murasame-class destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

JS Murasame was authorized under the Medium-term Defense Buildup Plan of 1991, and was built by IHI Marine United shipyards in Tokyo. She was laid down on 18 August 1993, launched on 23 August 1994. She was commissioned into service on 12 March 1996. and was assigned to the JMSDF Escort Flotilla 1 based at Yokosuka.

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