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AMATSUKAZE missile destroyer (1965)


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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



Standard scale images


<i>Amatsukaze </i>1965
Amatsukaze 1965
<i>Amatsukaze </i>1975
Amatsukaze 1975


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<i>Amatsukaze </i>1980
Amatsukaze 1980


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.