JDS Haruna (DDH-141)


Haruna in Pearl Harbor
Career
Name: Haruna
Laid down: 19 March 1970
Launched: December 1971
Commissioned: 22 March 1973
Decommissioned: 18 March 2009[1]
General characteristics
Class and type: Haruna-class destroyer
Displacement: 4,950 long tons (5,029 t) standard
6,900 long tons (7,011 t) full load
Length: 153.1 m (502 ft 4 in)
Beam: 17.5 m (57 ft 5 in)
Draught: 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Propulsion: 2 boilers 850 psi (60 kg/cm², 5.9 MPa), 430 °C
2 turbines
2 shafts
60,000 hp (45,000 kW)
Speed: 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)
Complement: 360 (36 officers)
Armament: Sea Sparrow Mk 29 (Type 3A) SAM octuple launcher
ASROC octuple launcher
• 2 × FMC 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 guns
• 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
• 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (Mark 46 torpedoes)

Haruna was a destroyer in service with the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. She was the lead ship of the Haruna class of helicopter-carrying destroyers.

References

Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:JS_Haruna_(DDH-141) JS Haruna (DDH-141)] at Wikimedia Commons
  1. ^ "Ship Decommissionings". SEAWAVES Magazine. http://www.seawaves.com/shipdecommissionings.asp. Retrieved 2009-12-23.