Hatakaze class destroyer
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4600 tons standard
Length:	150 m
Beam:	16.4 m
Draft:	4.8 m
Propulsion:	4 gas turbines (2 x Kawasaki Rolls Royce Spey SM1A for cruising) (2 x Olympus TM3B x2 for high speed only); two shafts, 72,000 shaft horsepower
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Crew Complement:	260
Armament:	• RGM-84 Harpoon SSM • RIM-67 Standard SAM • ASROC anti-submarine rocket • 2 x 5 inch/54 caliber rapid fire gun (Mk 42) • 2 x 20 mm CIWS • 2 x Type 68 triple torpedo tubes

The Hatakaze class of guided missle destroyer is a 3rd generation vessel in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). It marked the first of the JMSDF's ships that had gas turbine propulsion. Image File history File links JDS_Hatakaze. ... A Harpoon missile on display at the USS Bowfin museum at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii The AGM-84 Harpoon is a US all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system. ... A surface-to-surface missile (SSM) is a guided projectile launched from a hand-held, vehicle mounted, trailer mounted or fixed installation or from a ship. ... The Standard Missile is a type of surface-to-air missile (SAM) originally developed for the United States Navy. ... A surface-to-air missile (SAM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft. ... An older Matchbox ASROC launcher, phased out in the 1990s ASROC (for Anti-Submarine ROCket) is an antisubmarine missile system, developed by the United States Navy, and installed on over 200 surface ships, generally cruisers and destroyers. ... The word calibre (British English) or caliber (American English) designates the interior diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod. ... Phalanx CIWS A Close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a naval shipboard weapon system for detecting and destroying incoming anti-ship missiles and enemy aircraft at short range (the threat(s) having penetrated the ships available outer defences). ... Torpedo tubes of the French SNLE Redoutable A torpedo tube is a device for launching torpedoes in a horizontal direction. ... USS Lassen, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer (French: contre-torpilleur, German: Zerstörer, Spanish: destructor, Italian: cacciatorpediniere) is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers... The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ), or JMSDF, is the maritime branch of the Japanese Self-Defense Force, tasked with the naval defense of Japan and formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy after World War II.[1] The force is based strictly on defensive armament, largely lacking...

The core weapon suite is similar to that of the Tachikaze class destroyer, but various improvements were made in many areas. Most notable are those that allow the Hatakaze class to function as a group flagship. Normally this duty resides with the DDH class, but in case of a DDH being absent due to repairs or an accident, the Hatakaze design allows for it to function as a command ship. The Tachikaze class destroyer is a 2nd generation vessel in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). ...

Hatakaze destroyers operate the OYQ-4-1 type tactical control system. Its weapon systems include the standard missile surface-to-air missile, anti-submarine rockets, the RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile, two Mark 15 20 mm CIWS gun mounts, two torpedo mounts in a triple tube configuration and 2 5 inch (Mk 42) 54cal caliber, rapid-fire guns. The Standard Missile is a type of surface-to-air missile (SAM) originally developed for the United States Navy. ... A surface-to-air missile (SAM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft. ... An older Matchbox ASROC launcher, phased out in the 1990s ASROC (for Anti-Submarine ROCket) is an antisubmarine missile system, developed by the United States Navy, and installed on over 200 surface ships, generally cruisers and destroyers. ... A Harpoon missile on display at the USS Bowfin museum at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii The AGM-84 Harpoon is a US all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system. ... RBS-15 missile launched from a Sisu missile carriage. ... Phalanx CIWS A Close-in weapon system (CIWS) is a naval shipboard weapon system for detecting and destroying incoming anti-ship missiles and enemy aircraft at short range (the threat(s) having penetrated the ships available outer defences). ... A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ...

Namesakes

The name Shimakaze was also shared by an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer of 3048 tons, built at Maizuru Shipywards in Japan. She was completed in May 1943, being extremely large and fast, with a very heavy torpedo armament. Shimakaze was sunk by U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft in the Philippines area on 11 November 1944. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) (: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun) or sometimes referred to as the Combined Fleet was the Navy of Empire of Japan (Dai Nippon Teikoku) from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japans constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling...

Ships in the class

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External links

• GlobalSecurity.org; JMSDF DDG Hatakaze Class