JS Samidare (DD-106)

JS Samidare (DD-106) is the sixth ship of the Murasame-class destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). She was commissioned on 21 March 2000.[1]

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

JS Samidare on 5 July 2006
History
Japan
Name:
  • Samidare
  • (さみだれ)
Ordered: 1995
Builder: IHI Corporation, Tokyo
Laid down: 11 September 1997
Launched: 24 September 1998
Commissioned: 21 March 2000
Homeport: Kure
Identification:
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:
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 165
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter

Construction and career

Samidare was laid down on September 11, 1997 by Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries at Tokyo as part of the 1995 plan and launched on September 24, 1998. Commissioned on March 21, 2000, the vessel was incorporated into the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Kure.

The destroyer participated in the Japan-US-India Joint Training (Malabar 2019) from September 26 to October 4, 2019. It was carried out in the sea and airspace from Sasebo to the south of the Kanto region, and from the JMSDF, there were other escort vessels JS Chōkai and JS Kaga, supply vessels JS Ōmi, and P-1 patrol aircraft. USS McCampbell, a P-8A aircraft, and a submarine from the United States Navy, INS Sahyadri, INS Kiltan, and a P-8I aircraft from the Indian Navy participated in anti-submarine warfare training, anti-submarine warfare training, conducted anti-water shooting training, anti-aircraft shooting training, and offshore replenishment training.[2]

On October 16 of the same year, Samidare conducted communication training using radio with the Chinese Navy destroyer Taiyun (which was scheduled to participate in the JMSDF Fleet review on October 14, but canceled due to Typhoon Hagibis) in the Pacific Ocean south of Kanto region. This was the third Japan-China goodwill training for the JMSDF, the previous being in December 2011.[3]

Citations
  1. "DD-101 Murasame Class". globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  2. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/201909/20190925.pdf
  3. https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/201910/20191021-1.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.
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