JS Ashigara (DDG-178)
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| Career (Japan) |  |
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| Name: | Ashigara (DDG-178) |
| Namesake: | Mount Ashigara |
| Ordered: | 2003 |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Nagasaki |
| Laid down: | April 6, 2005 |
| Launched: | August 30, 2006 |
| Commissioned: | 13 March 2008 |
| Status: | In Service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Atago class destroyer |
| Displacement: |
7700 tons standard 10,000+ tons full load |
| Length: | 560 ft (170 m) |
| Beam: | 68.9 ft (21.0 m) |
| Draft: | 20.3 ft (6.2 m) |
| Propulsion: |
4 Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 shaft horsepower (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: |
4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,334 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 300 |
| Sensors and processing systems: | AN/SPY-1D |
| Armament: |
• 8 x SSM-1B SSM • SM-2 Standard SAM • ASROC anti-submarine rocket • 1 x 5 inch (127 mm/62 cal) Mk-45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) • 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS • 2 x HOS302 triple torpedo tubes (6 x Mk-46 or type73 torpedoes) |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 x SH-60K helicopter |
JS Ashigara (DDG-178) is a Atago class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Ashigara was named for Mount Ashigara, and is the first Japanese ship to bear the prefix JS (Japanese Ship) instead of JDS (Japanese Defense Ship).
She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on April 6, 2005, launched on August 30, 2006; and was commissioned on 13 March 2008.
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