JS Ikazuchi (DD-107)

JS Ikazuchi (DD-107) is the seventh ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 14 March 2001.[1]

JS Ikazuchi on 28 July 2010
History
Japan
Name:	Ikazuchi (いかづち)
Ordered:	1996
Builder:	Hitachi, Maizuru
Laid down:	25 February 1998
Launched:	24 June 1999
Commissioned:	14 March 2001
Homeport:	Yokosuka
Identification:	MMSI number: 431999648 Pennant number:DD-107
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

Ikazuchi was laid down on February 25, 1998 at Hitachi Zosen Corporation Maizuru as the 1996 plan and launched on June 24, 1999. Commissioned on March 14, 2001, was incorporated into the 5th Escort Corps of the 1th Escort Corps and deployed to Yokosuka.

From August 15 to 18, 2020, joint training was conducted with the US Navy which consists of USS Ronald Reagan and several other ships in the sea and airspace south of Okinawa.[2]

Gallery

• 
  JS Ikazuchi and JS Kongō replenish with USNS Tippecanoe on 5 December 2010.
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  JS Ikazuchi alongside USS George Washington on 5 December 2010.
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  JS Ikazuchi, USNS John Ericsson and USS Ronald Reagan on 16 August 2020.
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  JS Ikazuchi, USNS John Ericsson and USS Ronald Reagan on 16 August 2020.
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  JS Ikazuchi, USNS John Ericsson and USS Ronald Reagan on 16 August 2020.

Citations

1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
2. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202008/20200819.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.