Atago (DDG-177) |
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| Career (Japan) | |
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| Name: | Atago (DDG-177) |
| Namesake: | Mount Atago |
| Ordered: | 2002 |
| Builder: | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Nagasaki |
| Laid down: | April 5, 2004 |
| Launched: | August 24, 2005 |
| Commissioned: | March 15, 2007 |
| Fate: | Active |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Atago class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 7700 tons standard 10,000+ tons full load |
| Length: | 560 ft (170 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 |
| Armament: | • 8 x SSM-1B SSM • SM-2 Standard SAM • ASROC anti-submarine rocket • 1 x 5 inch (127 mm/62 cal) Mk-45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) • 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS • 2 x HOS302 triple torpedo tubes (6 x Mk-46 or type73 torpedoes) |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 x SH-60K helicopter |
Atago (あたご A-ta-go)(DDG-177） is an Atago class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Atago was named for Mount Atago.
She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on April 5, 2004, launched on August 24, 2005; and commissioned on March 15, 2007.
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On February 19 (JST, February 18-UTC), 2008, Atago collided with and destroyed a civil fishing boat.[1][2] Two fishermen were missing, and they haven't been found. Atago is believed to have been responsible for the accident.[3]
Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:JS_Atago_(DDG-177) JS Atago (DDG-177)] at Wikimedia Commons
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