JS Harusame

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Naval Ensign of Japan.svgJapan
Name
  • Harusame
  • (はるさめ)
Namesake Harusame (1959)
Ordered1992
Builder Mitsui, Tamano
Laid down11 August 1994
Launched16 October 1995
Commissioned24 March 1997
Homeport Sasebo
Identification
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class and type Murasame-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 4,550 tons standard,
  • 6,200 tons hull load
Length151 m (495 ft 5 in)
Beam17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Propulsion
Speed30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement165
Sensors and
processing systems
Electronic warfare
& decoys
Armament
Aircraft carried1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter

JS Harusame (DD-102) is the second ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 24 March 1997. [1]

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Design

The hull design was completely renovated from first-generation destroyers. In addition to increasing the size in order to reduce the underwater radiation noise, both superstructure and hull was inclined to reduce the radar cross-section. However, there is no angled tripod mainmast like the one of the American Arleigh Burke-class destroyer because of the heavy weather of the Sea of Japan in winter. The aft was designed like a "mini-Oranda-zaka" as with the Kongō class to avoid interference between helicopters and mooring devices. [2] Destroyers built under the First Defense Build-up Plan, including the former Murasame class, adopted a unique long forecastle style called "Oranda-zaka".

The engine arrangement is COGAG as same as Asagiri class, but a pair of engines are updated to Spey SM1C. And the remaining one pair are replaced by LM2500, same as Kongō class. [2]

Construction and career

Harusame was laid down on 11 August 1994 at Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Tamano as the 1992 plan and launched on 16 October 1995. Commissioned on 24 March 1997, the vessel was incorporated into the 8th Escort Corps of the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Sasebo.

From 17 to 29 September and 15 October to 23 October 2019, Japan-Australia joint training (Japan-Australia Trident) was held in the sea and airspace from the south of Kanto to the west of Kyushu via the area around Okinawa. In addition to Harusame the escort vessels JS Teruzuki, JS Asahi, JS Atago, the supply ship JS Mashū and P-1 patrol aircraft or P-3C patrol aircraft and submarines, and ships from the Royal Australian Navy participated. [3] On 24 November, the same year, she departed from Sasebo for the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia as the 35th Expeditionary Piracy Action Water Corps. Due to the fact that some members of the ship completed their mission in late May 2020 and developed symptoms of suspected acute cholecystitis or acute cholangitis on their way back to Japan, they planned to return to Japan on 20 June, one day earlier. The vessel returned to port on 19 June. [4] [5]

On 22 May 2022, Harusame departed Sasebo for the Gulf of Aden as the 42nd Deployment Surface for Counter Piracy Enforcement. The vessel relieved JS Samidare. [6]

Citations

  1. ↑ "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 Abe 2000, pp. 152–157.
  3. ↑ "日豪共同訓練（日豪トライデント）の実施について" (PDF) (Press release) (in Japanese). Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ "Chinese Carrier Strike Group Now Operating in East China Sea". 23 May 2022.

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