JS Ikazuchi (DD-107)

JS Ikazuchi (DD-107) is the seventh ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 14 March 2001.[1]

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Ikazuchi.

JS Ikazuchi on 28 July 2010
History
Japan
Name:
  • Ikazuchi
  • (いかづち)
Ordered: 1996
Builder: Hitachi, Maizuru
Laid down: 25 February 1998
Launched: 24 June 1999
Commissioned: 14 March 2001
Homeport: Yokosuka
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Murasame-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 4,550 tons standard,
  • 6,200 tons hull load
Length: 151 m (495 ft 5 in)
Beam: 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft: 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:
Speed: 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement: 165
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter

Construction and career

Ikazuchi was laid down on February 25, 1998 at Hitachi Zosen Corporation Maizuru as the 1996 plan and launched on June 24, 1999. Commissioned on March 14, 2001, was incorporated into the 5th Escort Corps of the 1th Escort Corps and deployed to Yokosuka.

From August 15 to 18, 2020, joint training was conducted with the US Navy which consists of USS Ronald Reagan and several other ships in the sea and airspace south of Okinawa.[2]

Citations
  1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  2. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202008/20200819.pdf

References
  • Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003). ISBN 0710630484
  • Heihachiro Fujiki (August 2003). "Development of multi-purpose DDs for "8-8 escort flotilla". Ships of the World (in Japanese). Kaijinn-sha (614): 94–99.


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