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Destroyer JS Chikuma (DE 233)

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Classification

Ship class:
Abukuma-class destroyer escort
Type:
Destroyer escort

Basic information

Operator:
Japan Maritime Self-Defense ForceJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Country of build:
Builder:
Sumitomo Heavy Industries
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active
MMSI number:
431999575

Ship measurements

Displacement:
2,550 t
Length:
109 m
Beam:
13 m
Draft:
3.7 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
CODOG
Propulsion:
  • 2 * shafts
  • 2 * Kawasaki-RR SM1A gas turbines 26,650 hp (19,870 kW)
  • 2 * Mitsubishi S12U MTK diesels 6,000 hp (4,500 kW)
Speed:
27 knots

Personnel

Complement:
120

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • FCS-2
Armament:
  • 8 * Harpoon missiles
  • ASROC octuple launcher
  • 1 * Otobreda 76 mm gun
  • 1 * Phalanx 20 mm CIWS
  • 2 * HOS-301 triple 324 mm (12.8 in) torpedo tubes

JS Chikuma (DE 233) is the fifth ship of the Abukuma-class destroyer escorts. She was commissioned on 24 February 1993.

Chikuma was laid down at Hitachi Zosen Corporation Osaka Shipyard on 14 February 1991 and launched on 25 January 1992. She was commissioned on 24 February 1993 and deployed to Maizuru.

The Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Perth and the frigate HMAS Canberra, which docked at Maizuru from October 29 to November 3, 1993, hosted the escort ship JS Abukuma.

On June 13, 2000, she was transferred to the 25th Escort Corps of the Ominato District Force in place of the training ship JS Akigumo, and her homeport was transferred from Maizuru to Mutsu.

From May 11 to May 15, 2012, she and the French Navy information gathering ship Dupuy de Lôme participated in exercises at Hakodate Port.

At around 15:40 on November 22, 2018, she was firing her high-performance Phalanx CIWS cannon on the deck about 130 km off Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture, heavy seas caused the misfire of 21 rounds. The still live ammunition was dropped into the sea, and there were no injuries.

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