JS Suzutsuki

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JS Suzutsuki in January 2017
History
Naval Ensign of Japan.svgJapan
Name
  • Suzutsuki
  • (すずつき)
Namesake Suzutsuki (1942)
Ordered2009
Builder Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down18 May 2011
Launched17 October 2012
Commissioned12 March 2014
Homeport Sasebo
IdentificationDD-117
StatusActive
General characteristics
Class and type Akizuki-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 5,000 tonnes standard
  • 6,800 tonnes full load
Length150.5 m (493 ft 9 in)
Beam18.3 m (60 ft 0 in)
Draft5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)
Depth10.9 m (35 ft 9 in)
Propulsion COGAG, two shafts, four Rolls-Royce Spey SM1C turbines
Speed30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement200
Sensors and
processing systems
  • ATECS (advanced technology command system)
  • OYQ-11 ACDS
  • FCS-3A AAW system
  • OQQ-22 ASW system
  • NOLQ-3D EW system
  • OPS-20C surface search radar
Armament
Aircraft carried1 × SH-60K helicopter

JS Suzutsuki (DD-117) is the third ship of Akizuki-class destroyers, operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. She was commissioned on 12 March 2014.

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Construction and career

Suzutsuki was laid down on May 18, 2011 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works as the 2009 plan 5,000-ton type escort ship No. 2246 based on the medium-term defense capability development plan, and launched on October 17, 2012. Commissioned on March 12, 2014, was incorporated into the 8th Escort Corps of the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Sasebo.

On July 10, 2016, as the 25th dispatched anti-piracy action surface corps, sailed from Sasebo base to the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia with the escort ship JS Inazuma and returned to Japan on January 12, 2016. [1]

From October 13 to November 25, 2017, she was dispatched to the waters around Hawaii and participated in the US dispatch training. [2]

From August 26 to October 30, 2018, participated in the Indo-Pacific dispatch training with the escort vessels JS Kaga and JS Inazuma, and visited India, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Philippines. On September 13, she joined the submarine JS Kuroshio in the South China Sea and conducted anti-submarine warfare training.

On April 21, 2019, she entered Qingdao to participate in the International Fleet Review Ceremony to be held on April 23 near Qingdao, Shandong Province, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the PLA Navy. It had been about seven and a half years since the last JMSDF ship visited China in December 2011.

From August 15 to 17, 2020, Japan-US joint training was conducted with the US Navy destroyer USS Mustin in the East China Sea. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  2. ↑ https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/info/news/201710/20171010-03.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  3. ↑ https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202008/20200818.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]


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