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History | |
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Name | Nōmi |
Namesake | Nōmi Island |
Builder | Japan Marine United, Yokohama |
Cost | 12.6 billion yen |
Laid down | 19 May 2021 |
Launched | 24 October 2023 |
Commissioned | March 2025 |
Identification | Pennant number: MSO-307 |
Status | To be commissioned |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Awaji-class minesweeper |
Displacement | 690 t (680 long tons) standard |
Length | 67 m (219 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 11 m (36 ft 1 in) |
Draft | 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) |
Depth | 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Crew | Approx. 60 |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Armament | 1 × single JM61R-MS 20mm guns |
Nōmi (のうみ) is a minesweeper of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the fourth ship of the Awaji-class. She is named after Nomi Island of the Hiroshima Prefecture, and the second ship to be named in this manner, after the Imperial Japanese Navy's Mikura-class escort ship Nomi, [1] as well as the first in the JMSDF era. [2]
Nomi was laid down on 19 May 2021 at the JMU Yokohama Works Tsurumi Plant as the 307th minesweeper planned for fiscal year 2020, and was named and launched on 24 October 2023. [3] She is scheduled to be commissioned in March 2025, after a period of being fitted out and undergoing sea trials.[ citation needed ]
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