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Daisen 2003

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
えちご [Echigo]	PLH08		Mitsui, Tamano	29.3.1988	4.7.1989	28.2.1990	in service (2019)
りゅうきゅう [Ryukyu]	PLH09		Mitsubishi, Nagasaki	24.6.1998	10.9.1999	31.3.2000	in service (2019)
だいせん [Daisen]	PLH10		NKK, Tsurumi	8.3.1999	27.4.2001	1.10.2001	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3100
Displacement normal, t	3900
Length, m	100.0 wl 105.0 oa
Breadth, m	15.0
Draught, m	4.85
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 Nippon Kokan-Pielstick 12PC2-6 V400 diesels
Power, h. p.	17950
Max speed, kts	22
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	5700(18)
Armament	1 x 1 - 35/90 type 87, 1 x 3 - 20/76 JM-61-MB Sea Vulcan, 1 helicopter (Bell 212)
Electronic equipment	JMA 1596, JMA1576, helicopter control radars
Complement	71

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Project history

Intended to operate 100nm or more out to sea. Design is a modernized version of the preceding Tsugaru class, with somewhat finer hull lines and a bulbous forefoot to the bow.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.