JS Akebono (DD-108)

JS Akebono (DD-108) is the eighth ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 19 March 2002.[1]

JS Akebono at Pearl Harbor in 2010
History
Japan
Name:	Akebono (いかづち)
Namesake:	Akebono (1955)
Ordered:	1997
Builder:	IHI Corporation, Tokyo
Laid down:	29 October 1999
Launched:	25 September 2000
Commissioned:	19 March 2002
Homeport:	Kure
Identification:	MMSI number: 431999654 Pennant number:DD-108
Status:	Active
General characteristics
Class and type:	Murasame-class destroyer
Displacement:	4,550 tons standard, 6,200 tons hull load
Length:	151 m (495 ft 5 in)
Beam:	17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft:	5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:	2 × IHI-GE LM2500 gas turbines 2 × KHI-RR SM1C gas turbines 60,000 shp (45 MW) 2 shafts, cp props
Speed:	30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement:	165
Sensors and processing systems:	OYQ-9 CDS (w/ Link-11) OYQ-103 ASWCS FCS-2-31 fire-control systems OPS-24B air search radar OPS-28 surface search radar OQS-5 hull sonar OQR-2 TASS
Electronic warfare & decoys:	NOLQ-3 suite Mk. 36 SRBOC Chaff and Decoy Launching System AN/SLQ-25 torpedo decoys
Armament:	1 × OTO Melara 76 mm gun 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 8 × SSM-1B Anti-ship missile in quad canisters 2 × triple 324 mm torpedo tubes 16-cell Mk. 48 VLS with Evolved Sea Sparrow SAM 16-cell Mk. 41 VLS with VL-ASROC
Aircraft carried:	1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter

Construction and career

Akebono was laid down on October 29, 1999 at IHI Corporation Tokyo as the 1997 plan and launched on September 25, 2000. Commissioned on March 19, 2002, was incorporated into the 4th Escort Corps of the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Kure.

In June 2019, it was decided to additionally participate in the 2019 Indo-Pacific dispatch training in which the escort vessels JS Izumo and JS Murasame are participating. Conduct joint training with the navies of each country in the Indo-Pacific region during the dispatch.[2]

Gallery

• 
  JS Akebono leaving Pearl Harbor on 6 July 2010.
• 
  JS Akebono and USS Lake Erie on 14 July 2010.
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  JS Akebono underway on 14 July 2010.
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  JS Akebono underway on 14 July 2010.
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  JS Akebono, JS Murasame and JS Izumo on 26 July 2019.

Citations

1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
2. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/201906/20190605.pdf

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.