|
Entered service |
1980 |
|
Crew |
350 men |
|
Sea endurance |
? |
|
Dimensions and displacement |
|
Length |
158.5 m |
|
Beam |
17.5 m |
|
Draught |
5.3
m |
|
Displacement, standard |
5 200 tons |
|
Displacement, full load |
6 800 tons |
|
Propulsion and speed |
|
Speed |
32 knots |
|
Steam turbines |
70 000 shp |
|
Aircraft |
|
Helicopters |
3 x SH-60J Seahawk |
|
Armament |
|
Artillery |
2 x FMC127-mm DP guns, 2 x 20-mm Phalanx CIWS |
|
Missiles |
1 x octuple ASROC Mk.112 ASW missile launcher
for 24 missiles carrying Mk.46 NEARTIP torpedoes, 1 x octupleSea Sparrow SAM
launcher |
|
Torpedoes |
2 x tripple 324-mm Type 68 torpedo tubes |
|
The Shirane class
units, Shirane (DD 143) and Kurama (DD 144), were commissioned in
1980 and 1981 respectively. These ships are further development of
the Haruna class. They have a broken superstructure with
to 'macks' one offset to port atop the main superstructure forward,
and the other atop the detached hangar aft. Larger than their
predecessors, they were fitted with towed-array sonars in the early
1990s.
For landing helicopters in bad weather, the ships are fitted with
the Canadian Bear Trap haul-down system. To reduce their underwater
radiated noise levels from the main propulsion machinery they are
equipped with the 'Masker' bubble-generating system. This forms a
continuous curtain of minute air bubbles over the parts of the hull
beneath the machinery spaces, with the bubbles acting as a
sound-damping layer.
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