JS Harusame

JS Harusame (DD-102) is the second ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 24 March 1997.[1]

JS Harusame on 19 June 2020.
History
Japan
Name:	Harusame (はるさめ)
Namesake:	Harusame (1959)
Ordered:	1992
Builder:	Mitsui, Tamano
Laid down:	11 August 1994
Launched:	16 October 1995
Commissioned:	24 March 1997
Homeport:	Sasebo
Identification:	MMSI number: 431999535 Pennant number:DD-102
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

Harusame was laid down on August 11, 1994 at Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Tamano as the 1992 plan and launched on October 16, 1995. Commissioned on March 24, 1997, was incorporated into the 8th Escort Corps of the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Sasebo.

From September 17th to 29th and October 15th to October 23rd, 2019, Japan-Australia joint training (Japan-Australia Trident) will be held in the sea and airspace from the south of Kanto to the west of Kyushu via the area around Okinawa. To do. In addition to this ship from the JMSDF, escort vessels JS Teruzuki, JS Asahi, JS Atago, supply ship JS Mashu and P-1 patrol aircraft or P-3C patrol aircraft and submarines, and ships from the Royal Australian Navy. And submarines participated and conducted various tactical training.[2]

On November 24, the same year, she departed from Sasebo for the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia as the 35th Expeditionary Piracy Action Water Corps. Due to the fact that some members of the ship completed their mission in late May 2020 and developed symptoms of suspected acute cholecystitis or acute cholangitis on their way back to Japan, they plan to return to Japan on June 20th, one day earlier. Return to port on June 19.[3][4]

Gallery

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  JS Harusame off Hawaii on 2 August 1998.
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  JS Harusame underway on 23 March 2006.
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  JS Harusame refueling with JS Tokiwa on 29 October 2006.
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  JS Harusame at Yokosuka on 1 January 2009.
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  JS Harusame at Yokosuka 7 August 2010.
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  JS Harusame underway on 23 June 2011.

Citations

1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
2. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/201909/20190910.pdf
3. https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2020/press_pdf/p20200608_01.pdf
4. https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2020/press_pdf/p20200616_02.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.