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Destroyer JS Akebono (DD-108)

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Classification

Ship class:
Murasame-class destroyer
Type:
Destroyer

Basic information

Namesake:
Akebono
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:
431999654

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:
  • OYQ-9 CDS (w/ Link-11)
  • OYQ-103 ASWCS
  • FCS-2-31 fire-control systems
  • OPS-24B air search radar
  • OPS-28 surface search radar
  • OQS-5 hull sonar
  • OQR-2 TASS
  • NOLQ-3 suite
  • Mk. 36 SRBOC Chaff and Decoy Launching System
  • AN/SLQ-25 torpedo decoys
Armament:
  • 1 * OTO Melara 76 mm gun
  • 2 * 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
  • 8 * SSM-1B Anti-ship missile in quad canisters
  • 2 * triple 324 mm torpedo tubes
  • 16-cell Mk. 48 VLS with Evolved Sea Sparrow SAM
  • 16-cell Mk. 41 VLS with VL-ASROC
Aircraft:
  • 1 * SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter

JS Akebono (DD-108) is the eighth ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 19 March 2002.

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