Akebono class destroyer escort

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The Akebono class destroyer escort (or frigate) of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force is the first post World War II Japanese indigenous frigate class, and its primary task is ASW. It is also called B Type escort and it is compared by 9B Type escort (Ikazuchi class destroyer escort). JMSDF chose Ikazuchi class. Only a single unit was built.

• Displacement: 1075t standard; 1350t full load
• Armament
  • 2 3 in/50 main guns
  • 4 40 mm anti-aircraft guns
  • 1 hedgehog
  • 8 DCT (K-guns)
  • 1 Depth charge rack
• Complement: 193

• Laid down: 1954
• Launched: October 30, 1955
• Comissioned: 1956
• Decomissioned: 1976
• Stricken: 1981

Combatant ship classes of the JMSDF

DDH : Destroyer Helicopter	13500t class | Shirane class | Haruna class
DDG : Guided Missile Destroyer	Atago class | Kongo class | Hatakaze class | Tachikaze class | Amatsukaze
DD : Destroyer	5000t class | Takanami class | Murasame class | Asagiri class | Hatsuyuki class | Akizuki class | Harukaze class | Ariake class Ariake / Yugure | Asakaze class Asakaze / Hatakaze
DDA : All Purpose Destroyer	Takatsuki class | Murasame class (1958)
DDK : Anti Submarine Destroyer	Minegumo class | Yamagumo class | Ayanami class
DE : Destroyer Escort	Abukuma class | Yubari class | Ishikari | Chikugo class | Isuzu class | Wakaba | Ikazuchi class | Akebono | Asahi class Asahi / Hatsuhi
PF : Patrol Frigate	Kusu class
SS : Submarine	2900t class | Oyashio class | Harushio class | Yushio class | Uzushio class | Asashio class | Oshio | Natsushio class | Hayashio class | Oyashio (1959) | Kuroshio (1955)
List	List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force List of ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force