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TAKATSUKI destroyers (1967 - 1970)


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Mochizuki 1979

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
たかつき [Takatsuki] DD164   Ishikawajima-Harima, Tokyo 8.10.1964 7.1.1966 15.3.1967 stricken 8.2002
きくづき [Kikuzuki] DD165   Mitsubishi HI, Nagasaki 15.3.1966 25.3.1967 27.3.1968 stricken 11.2003
もちづき [Mochizuki] DD166, 4.1995- ASU7019   Ishikawajima-Harima, Tokyo 22.11.1966 15.3.1968 25.3.1969 TS 4.1995, stricken 3.1999
ながつき [Nagatsuki] DD167   Mitsubishi HI, Nagasaki 2.3.1968 19.3.1969 12.2.1970 stricken 4.1996


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

3100
Displacement full, t

4500
Length, m

136.0
Breadth, m

13.4
Draught, m

4.40 max
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 sets Mitsubishi geared steam turbines, 2 Mitsubishi CE boilers
Power, h. p.

60000
Max speed, kts

32
Fuel, t

oil
Endurance, nm(kts)7000(20)
Armament

1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 RUR-5A), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 x 4 - 375 Type 71 ASWRL, 2 DASH drone helicopters
Electronic equipment

DD164, 165: OPS-11B, OPS-17, SPG-35 radars, SQS-23 sonar, NOLR-6C, OLT-3 ECM suites

DD166, 167: OPS-11B, OPS-17, SPG-35 radars, OQS-3 sonar, NOLR-6C, OLT-3 ECM suites
Complement

270


Standard scale images


<i>Takatsuki </i>1980
Takatsuki 1980
<i>Kikuzuki </i>1990
Kikuzuki 1990


Graphics


<i>Mochizuki </i>1979
Mochizuki 1979


Project history

The Takatsuki class have a typical 'American' appearance because of their 127mm guns and ASROC. The ships were designed for the US ASW DASH system, which proved to be unsuccessful and was removed in 1977. Mochizuki and Nagatsuki have a knuckle in the hull sides forward. Kikuzuki is the only unit fitted with fin stabilizers. All units were fitted with gravity davits and telescopic high-line equipment.

Modernizations

1970, Takatsuki; 1972, Kikuzuki, Mochizuki, Nagatsuki: + SQS-35(J) sonar

1985, Takatsuki: - 1 x 1 - 127/54, 2 DASH helicopters, SQS-23 sonar; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84C), 1 x 8 Sea Sparrow SAM (16 RIM-7F), FCS-2-12B radar, OQS-3, OQR-1 (SQR-18A TACTASS) sonars, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25 torpedo decoy

1986, Kikuzuki: - 1 x 1 - 127/54, 2 DASH helicopters, SQS-23 sonar; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84C), 1 x 8 Sea Sparrow SAM (16 RIM-7F), 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, FCS-2-12B, Mk 90 radars, OQS-3, OQR-1 (SQR-18A TACTASS) sonars, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25 torpedo decoy

Naval service

Mochizuki was in 1995 transferred to Fleet Training and Development Command as Special Use Auxiliary (ASU).