The Yukinami-class destroyers are a class of four guided missile destroyers in service in the East Japanese Navy from the mid-2000s onwards. They are equipped with the Typhon-II Combat System.
Specifications[]
- Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
- Service Period: 2006-
- Characteristics:
- Length: 561 feet (170.99 meters)
- Beam: 68.9 feet (21 meters)
- Draft: 20.3 feet (6.19 meters)
- Displacement: 7,735 tons (Standard); 9,998 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 241
- Propulsion: 4 x Evendale Design Bureau LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 x shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
- Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,334 kilometers) at 20 knots (37.04 km/h)
- Speed: 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- AN/SPY-1D(V) Multifunction AESA Radar
- AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar
- AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar
- AN/SPG-62 Fire Control Radar
- AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array
- AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar
- AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System
- Countermeasures:
- AN/SLQ-25J Nixie torpedo countermeasures suite
- AN/SLQ-32J Electronic Warfare Suite
- Mk.36 SBROC
- Armament:
- 1 x 5"/62-caliber Mk.45 Mod 4 lightweight naval gun
- 2 x Mk.41 VLS (1 x 64-cell, 1 x 32-cell; fires SM-2, Tomahawk, VL-ASROC, ESSM)
- 2 x MK.141 SSM Launchers (fires Harpoon AShMS)
- 2 x 12.75" Mk.32 triple torpedo tubes (fires Mk.46 lightweight torpedoes)
- 1 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
- Aircraft Carried: 2 x Stratford HF SH-60/91J Seahawk helicopters
- Aviation Facilities: Enclosed Hangar and Flight Deck
Unit Run[]
- JPS Yukinami (DDG-35)
- JPS Tamanami (DDG-36)
- JPS Kishinami (DDG-37)
- JPS Hayanami (DDG-38)