JS Akizuki

JS Akizuki (DD-115) is the lead ship of Akizuki-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 14 March 2012.

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese destroyer Akizuki.

JS Akizuki
History
Japan
Name:
  • Akizuki
  • (あきづき)
Namesake: Akizuki (1959)
Ordered: 2007
Builder: Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down: 17 July 2009
Launched: 13 October 2010
Commissioned: 14 March 2012
Homeport: Sasebo
Identification: DD-115
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Akizuki-class destroyer
Displacement:
  • 5,000 tonnes standard
  • 6,800 tonnes full load
Length: 150.5 m (493 ft 9 in)
Beam: 18.3 m (60 ft 0 in)
Draft: 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)
Depth: 10.9 m (35 ft 9 in)
Propulsion: COGAG, two shafts, four Rolls Royce Spey SM1C turbines
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 200
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • ATECS (advanced technology command system)
  • OYQ-11 ACDS
  • FCS-3A AAW system
  • OQQ-22 ASW system
  • NOLQ-3D EW system
  • OPS-20C surface search radar
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × SH-60K helicopter

Construction and career

Akizuki was laid down at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works on July 17, 2009 as the 2007 plan 5,000-ton type escort ship No. 2244 based on the medium-term defense capability development plan, launched and named on October 13, 2010. Launch, the public trial started on July 28, 2011, commissioned on March 14, 2012, and was incorporated into the 5th escort group of the 1st escort group. The fixed port is Sasebo base.[1]

On July 5, 2015, as the 22nd dispatched anti-piracy action surface corps, sailed from Sasebo base to the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia with JS Sawagiri.[2][3]

  • JS Akizuki at Yokosuka preparing for observing ceremony on 6 October 2012.
  • JS Akizuki at Yokosuka preparing for observing ceremony on 6 October 2012.
  • JS Akizuki at Wakayama on 16 July 2016.

References
  1. MSN産経ニュース新型護衛艦「あきづき」進水に歓声、三菱重工長崎造船所2010年10月13日
  2. https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2015/press_pdf/p20151201_01.pdf
  3. https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2015/press_pdf/p20150622_03.pdf



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