JDS Chōkai (DDG-176)
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 Chōkai (DDG-176) |
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| Career (Japan) |  |
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| Name: | Chōkai (DDG-176) |
| Namesake: | Mount Chōkai |
| Ordered: | 1993 |
| Builder: | IHI Corporation, Tokyo |
| Laid down: | May 29, 1995 |
| Launched: | August 27, 1996 |
| Commissioned: | March 20, 1998 |
| Fate: | Active |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Kongō class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 7500 tons standard 9500 tons full load |
| Length: | 528.2 ft (161.0 m) |
| Beam: | 68.9 ft (21.0 m) |
| Draft: | 20.3 ft (6.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 shaft horsepower (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,334 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 300 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPY-1D OPS-28 surface search radar OQS-102 bow mounted sonar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
NOLQ-2 intercept / jammer |
| Armament: | • RGM-84 Harpoon SSM • SM-2 Standard SAM (29 cells at the bow, 61 cell at the aft) • RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC • 1 x 5 inch (127 mm) / 54 caliber Oto-Breda Compact Gun • 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS • 2 x Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (6 x Mk-46 or Type 73 torpedoes) |
| Aircraft carried: | Room for a helicopter to land on the rear deck, but no support equipment installed |
JDS Chōkai (DDG-176) is a Kongō class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Chōkai was named for Mount Chōkai.
She was laid down by IHI Corporation in Tokyo on May 29, 1995, launched on August 27, 1996; and commissioned on March 20, 1998.
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