JS Kirisame

JS Kirisame (DD-104) is the fourth ship of Murasame-class destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. She was commissioned on 18 March 1999.[1]

JS Kirisame on 19 November 2008
History
Japan
Name:	Kirisame (きりさめ)
Namesake:	Kirisame
Ordered:	1994
Builder:	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down:	3 April 1996
Launched:	21 August 1997
Commissioned:	18 March 1999
Homeport:	Sasebo
Identification:	MMSI number: 431999644 Pennant number:DD-104
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 (56 km/h; 35 mph)
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

Kirisame was laid down on April 3, 1996 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki as the 1994 plan and launched on August 21, 1997. Commissioned on March 18, 1999, was incorporated into the 6th Escort Corps of the 2th Escort Corps and deployed to Sasebo.

On May 10, 2020, he departed from Sasebo base for the Middle East as the second dispatch information gathering activity water squadron.[2] On June 9, the same year after arriving at the site, he took over the mission from JS Takanami and started information gathering activities. On October 6, the same year, she took over the mission of JS Murasame of the 3rd party. On October 26, the same year, the vessel returned to Sasebo base.[3] From October 19th to 20th of the same year, Japan-US-Australia joint training was conducted with USS John S. McCain and HMAS Arunta in the South China Sea.[4]

Gallery

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  Kirisame underway, date unknown.
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  Kirisame at Osaka on 15 May 2016.
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  Kirisame maneuvering in December 2016.
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  Kirisame on 10 May 2020.

Citations

1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
2. https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2020/press_pdf/p20200501_01.pdf
3. https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2020/press_pdf/p20201013_03.pdf
4. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202010/20201020.pdf

References

• 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.
• Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003). ISBN 0710630484