JDS Amatsukaze (DDG-163)

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The Amatsukaze class destroyer was the first Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer to have surface-to-air missiles. Its primary tasks included air defense and ASW. A single unit was launched on October 5, 1963 and decomissioned in 1995.

• Displacement: 3050t standard; 4000t full load
• Armament:
  • 1 Mk 13 Missile Launcher (40 Standard MR-1 missiles)
  • 4 76/50 main guns
  • 1 ASROC ASW system (Add 1967-68)
  • 2 Hedgehog ASW mortar
  • 2 Triple Mk 32 ASW torpedo tubes
• Complement: 290

Combatant ship classes of the JMSDF

DDH : Destroyer Helicopter	Haruna class | Shirane class | 13500t class
DDG : Guided Missile Destroyer	Amatsukaze | Tachikaze class | Hatakaze class | Kongō class | Atago class
DD : Destroyer	Asakaze (Gleaves) class | Ariake (Fletcher) class | Harukaze class | Akizuki class | Hatsuyuki class | Asagiri class | Murasame class | Takanami class | 5000t class
DDA : All Purpose Destroyer	Murasame class (1958) | Takatsuki class
DDK : Anti Submarine Destroyer	Ayanami class | Yamagumo class | Minegumo class
DE : Destroyer Escort	Asahi (Cannon) class | Ikazuchi class | Akebono | Wakaba | Isuzu class | Chikugo class | Ishikari | Yubari class | Abukuma class
PF : Patrol Frigate	Kusu (Tacoma) class
SS : Submarine	Kuroshio (1955) (Gato class) | Oyashio (SS-511) | Hayashio class | Natsushio class | Oshio | Asashio class | Uzushio class | Yushio class | Harushio class | Oyashio class |2900t class
List	List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force List of ships of the Japanese Navy