JDS Amatsukaze

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JDS Amatsukaze underway, date unknown.
History
Naval Ensign of Japan.svgJapan
Name
  • Amatsukaze
  • (あまつかぜ)
Namesake Amatsukaze (1939)
Ordered1961
Builder Mitsubishi
Laid down29 November 1962
Launched5 October 1963
Commissioned15 February 1965
Decommissioned29 November 1995
Homeport
Identification Pennant number: DDG-163
Nickname(s)Jet coaster
Fate Sunk as target, November 1995
Class overview
Preceded by Akizuki class
Succeeded by Tachikaze class
General characteristics
Type Guided missile destroyer
Displacement
  • 3,050 long tons (3,099 t) standard
  • 4,000 long tons (4,064 t) full load
Length131.0 m (429 ft 9 in) overall
Beam13.4 m (44 ft 0 in)
Draft4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
Propulsion
  • 2 × IHI/GE reaction steam turbines
  • 2 × IHI Model FWD2 water tube boilers
  • 60,000 shp (45 MW), 2 shafts
Speed33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Complement290
Sensors and
processing systems
Electronic warfare
& decoys		NOLR-1B intercept
Armament

JDS Amatsukaze (DDG-163) was a guided missile destroyer (DDG) of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), and the only ship of her class. She was the first Japanese surface combatant equipped with surface-to-air missiles.

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Development

JDS Amatsukaze was planned as the DDG variant of the preceding Akizuki-class anti-aircraft destroyers, mounting the American Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System weapon system. However, the Tartar system turned out to be larger than expected, so Amatsukaze's design was altered completely, with an enlarged hull and with a shelter-deck design based on that of the Isuzu class [1] and uprated steam turbines. [2]

Construction and career

She was laid down on 29 November 1962 and launched on 5 October 1963 by Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki. Commissioned on 15 February 1965.

From July 1 to July 31 of the same year, she participated in the maritime training in the direction of Guam with the escort vessels JDS Haruna, JDS Mochizuki and JDS Nagatsuki.

Participated in Exercise RIMPAC 1980 from January 25, 1980, and from February 26 to March 18, the first joint exercise of the Maritime Self-Defense Force with the escort ship JDS Hiei and eight P-2J patrol aircraft. Participate in 80). The ship became a member of the USS Constellation Task Force. She succeeded in all four ship-to-air engagements during the exercises, and was attacked by the temporary enemy, the Royal Australian Navy aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. She was highly evaluated as the best ship in this exercise by engaging with USS Sargo which approached with the intention of reattacking the wrecked USS Constellation and destroying her. Returned to Japan on April 2.

From July 1 to July 31, 1992, she participated in the maritime training in the Philippines with the escort vessels JDS Setoyuki, JDS Asayuki and JDS Mineyuki.

Removed from the register on November 29, 1995. During the active period of 30 years and 9 months, the total voyage was 764,314 miles (about 1.4 million km), the total voyage time was 62,999.53 hours, and the Maritime Self-Defense Force exercises participated 19 times, integrated exercises 4 times, and 9 times. She was eventually sunk as an actual target for anti-ship missiles off Wakasa Bay.

Her port propeller is left at Yokosuka Education Corps, the starboard propeller is left at Yokosuka naval base, and the main anchor is left at Maizuru naval base.

Tartar missiles

Amatsukaze was one of the earliest foreign ships equipped with the American Tartar system. (The other is the French Kersaint-class DDG). [3] Because of the financial burden of this expensive weapon system, the other equipment aboard Amatsukaze was almost the same as that of the Ayanami class at first, but the JMSDF applied a spiral model to Amatsukaze, allowing continual updating of her equipment as described in the following table.

The Tartar weapon system made a strong positive impression on the JMSDF, but it was too expensive for the JMSDF to be able to afford another Tartar-equipped DDG at once. As a result, the JMSDF had to wait 10 years to build another DDG, the first Tachikaze-class destroyer. [4]

19651995
SAM RIM-24B Improved Tartar RIM-66 SM-1MR
SUM none RUR-5 ASROC
with Mk.112 octuple launcher
Torpedo
launcher		Mk.2 over-the-side launchers Mk.32 triple torpedo tubes
3D radarAN/SPS-39 AN/SPS-52
GFCSMk.63 mod.14FCS-2-21D
Sonar AN/SQS-4 (search)
AN/SQR-8 (attack)		AN/SQS-23
EW NOLR-1B (intercept)NOLR-6B (intercept)
OLR-9B (missile warning)
OLT-3 (jammer)

Ships in class

Building no.Pennant no.NameLaid downLaunchedCompletedDecommissioned
2303DDG-163Amatsukaze29 November 19625 October 196315 February 196529 November 1995

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References

  1. ↑ "1. Hull (Hardware of JMSDF destroyers)". Ships of the World (in Japanese) (742). Kaijin-sha: 100–105. June 2011.
  2. ↑ Yasuo Abe (June 2011). "2. Propulsion system (Hardware of JMSDF destroyers)". Ships of the World (in Japanese) (742). Kaijin-sha: 106–111.
  3. ↑ Keiichi Nogi [in Japanese] (March 2010). "1. Missiles (Shipboard weapons of JMSDF 1952-2010)". Ships of the World (in Japanese) (721). Kaijin-sha: 82–87.
  4. ↑ Heihachiro Fujiki (August 2007). "A history of JMSDF's missile destroyers". Ships of the World (in Japanese) (678). Kaijinn-sha: 98–103.
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