JS Ikazuchi (DD-107)
![]() JS Ikazuchi on 28 July 2010
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Name |
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Ordered | 1996 |
Builder | Hitachi, Maizuru |
Laid down | 25 February 1998 |
Launched | 24 June 1999 |
Commissioned | 14 March 2001 |
Homeport | Yokosuka |
Identification |
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Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Murasame-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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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 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter |
JS Ikazuchi (DD-107) is the seventh ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 14 March 2001.[1]
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]
Gallery[]
JS Ikazuchi and JS Kongō replenish with USNS Tippecanoe on 5 December 2010.
JS Ikazuchi alongside USS George Washington on 5 December 2010.
JS Ikazuchi, USNS John Ericsson and USS Ronald Reagan on 16 August 2020.
JS Ikazuchi, USNS John Ericsson and USS Ronald Reagan on 16 August 2020.
JS Ikazuchi, USNS John Ericsson and USS Ronald Reagan on 16 August 2020.
Citations[]
- ^ "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202008/20200819.pdf
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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.
- 1999 ships
- Murasame-class destroyers (1994)
- Ships built by Hitachi Zosen Corporation
- Japan naval ship stubs