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Amatsukaze 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
あまつかぜ [Amatsukaze]	DDG163		Mitsubishi Zosen, Nagasaki	29.11.1962	5.10.1963	15.2.1965	stricken 11.1995

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3050
Displacement full, t	4000
Length, m	131.0
Breadth, m	13.4
Draught, m	4.20 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Ishikawajima General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Ishikawajima Foster Wheeler boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	33
Fuel, t	oil 900
Endurance, nm(kts)	7000(18)
Armament	1 x 1 Tartar SAM (40 RIM-24), 2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 2 - 483 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 15 ASWRL
Electronic equipment	OPS-16, SPS-29A, SPS-39, 2x SPG-51B, SPG-34 radars, SQS-4A, SQR-8 sonars, NOLR-1B ECM suite
Complement	290

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Project history

Amatsukaze was the first guided missile ship built in Japan. She required a little over two years to build, a remarkably short time. The Tartar system was applied from the US. Her flush deck design gives a clean appearance, and because of her clean quarterdeck many publications mistakenly credit her with the capacity to handle a helicopter.

Modernizations

1967: - 2 - 483 TT, SPS-39 radar, SQS-4A, SQR-8 sonars, + 2 x 3 - 324 TT, SPS-52 radar, SQS-23 sonar

1968: + 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5A)

1978: - 1 x 1 Tartar SAM, 2x SPG-51B radars; + 1 x 1 Standard SM-1MR SAM (40 RIM-66A), 2x SPG-51C radars

mid-1980s: - NOLR-1B ECM suite; + NOLR-6B, OLR-9B, OLT-3 ECM suites, 2x SRBOC Mk 36 decoy RL

Naval service

No significant events.