![]() JS Kirishima underway on 22 February 2008
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History | |
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Name |
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Namesake | Mount Kirishima |
Ordered | 1990 |
Builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries |
Laid down | 7 April 1992 |
Launched | 19 August 1993 |
Commissioned | 16 March 1995 |
Homeport | Yokosuka |
Identification |
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Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Kongō-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 528.2 ft (161.0 m) |
Beam | 68.9 ft (21.0 m) |
Draft | 20.3 ft (6.2 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
Range |
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Complement | 300 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | NOLQ-2 intercept / jammer |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × SH-60K helicopter |
JS Kirishima (DDG-174) is a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Kirishima was named for Mount Kirishima. She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on 7 April 1992, and was launched on 19 August 1993.
It was not until 16 March 1995 that she was commissioned. She is based at the JMSDF base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, and as of 2014, is the flagship of Rear Admiral Hidetoshi Iwasaki.[1]