JS Ariake (DD-109)

JS Ariake (DD-109) is the ninth ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 6 March 2002.[1]

JS Ariake on 23 June 2006
History
Japan
Name:	Ariake (ありあけ)
Namesake:	Ariake (1959)
Ordered:	1997
Builder:	Mitsubishi, Kobe
Laid down:	18 May 1999
Launched:	16 October 2000
Commissioned:	6 March 2002
Homeport:	Sasebo
Identification:	MMSI number: 431999655 Pennant number:DD-109
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

Ariake was laid down on May 18, 1999 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Kobe as the 1997 plan and launched on October 16, 2000. Commissioned on March 6, 2002, was incorporated into the 6th Escort Corps of the 2th Escort Corps and deployed to Sasebo.

On September 13, 2020, she departed from Sasebo base for the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia as the 37th dispatched anti-piracy action water squadron.[2]

Gallery

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  JS Ariake underway on 16 November 2002.
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  JS Ariake entering Pearl Harbor on 5 July 2006.
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  JS Ariake at Gulf of Oman on 11 December 2013.
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  JS Ariake at Gulf of Oman on 11 December 2013.

Citations

1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
2. https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2020/press_pdf/p20200828_01.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.