JS Asagiri

JS Asagiri (DD-151) is an Asagiri-class destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Asagiri.
JS Asagiri at Subic Bay on 1 July 1990
History
Japan
Name:
  • Asagiri
  • (あさぎり)
Namesake: Asagiri (1929)
Ordered: 29 March 1984
Builder: IHI Corporation, Tokyo
Laid down: 13 February 1985
Launched: 19 September 1986
Commissioned: 17 March 1988
Reclassified: TV-3516
Homeport: Maizuru
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Asagiri-class destroyer
Length: 137 m (449 ft 6 in)
Beam: 14.6 m (47 ft 11 in)
Draft: 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in)
Propulsion: 4 gas turbines 54,000 shp (40,000 kW)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: 8,030 nmi (14,870 km; 9,240 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement: 220
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • OYQ-6/7 CDS (w/ Link-11)
  • OPS-14/24 air search radar
  • OPS-28 surface search radar
  • OQS-4A hull sonar
  • OQR-1 TACTASS
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 SH-60J(K) anti-submarine helicopter

Development and design

The Asagiri class is equipped for combat and interception missions, and is primarily armed with anti-ship weapons. They carries two of the Mk-141 Guided Missile Launching System (GMLS), which are anti-ship missile systems. The ship is also fitted to be used against submarines. She also carries the Mk-32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes (SVTT), which can be used as an anti-submarine weapon. The ship has two of these systems abeam to starboard and to port. They is also fitted with an Oto-Melara 62-caliber gun to be used against sea and air targets.[1]

They are 137 m (449 ft 6 in) long. The ship has a range of 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) with a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). The ship can have up to 220 personnel on board. The ship is also fitted to accommodate for one aircraft. The ship's flight deck can be used to service a SH-60J9(K) Seahawk helicopter.[2]

Construction and career

She was laid down on 13 February 1985 and launched on 19 September 1986 by IHI Corporation, Tokyo. She was commissioned on 17 March 1988.

On 16 February 2005, she was reclassified to a training ship, the ship hull number changed to TV-3516, and it was transferred to the training fleet 1st training corps.

In 2008 and 2011, she participated in the practicing voyage to the ocean with the training ship JS Kashima.

On 14 March 2012, she was reclassified to an escort ship again, and the ship registration number was changed to DD-151 in the escort ship era. Reorganized into the 14th escort fleet of the escort fleet, the fixed port became Maizuru, and transferred to the same area.

In late August 2019, she took over the mission of JS Sazanami, and on 1 September, on her way back to Japan, she stopped at Muscat, the capital of Oman in the Middle East, and conducted tactical movements and communication training with the Omani patrol boat Al Seeb in the waters around the country and conducted goodwill training. Joint training with the Philippine Navy corvette BRP Emilio Jacinto was held from 24–26 September. On 4 October, she returned to Maizuru after completing his mission off the coast of Somalia.[3]

  • JS Asagiri as a training ship on 31 July 2011.
  • JS Asagiri at Pearl Harbor on 10 October 2011.
  • JS Asagiri at Pearl Harbor on 10 October 2011.
  • JS Asagiri alongside JS Kashima on 26 October 2011.
  • JS Asagiri on 25 October 2014.
  • JS Asagiri with an Udaloy-class destroyer on 23 June 2018.

References

Media related to JS Asagiri (TV-3516) at Wikimedia Commons

  1. "Asagiri class Destroyer - DD". seaforces.org. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  2. "Asagiri class Destroyer - DD". seaforces.org. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  3. aseanportal_writerworldllc. "海上自衛隊とフィリピン海軍が通信訓練・戦術運動の共同訓練". アセアンポータル (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-11-23.
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