JS Ikazuchi (DD-107)

	JS Ikazuchi on 28 July 2010
History
Japan
Name	Ikazuchi ; (いかづち);
Ordered	1996
Builder	Hitachi, Maizuru
Laid down	25 February 1998
Launched	24 June 1999
Commissioned	14 March 2001
Homeport	Yokosuka
Identification	MMSI number: 431999648; Pennant number:DD-107;
Status	Active
General characteristics
Class and type	Murasame-class destroyer
Displacement	4,550 tons standard, ; 6,200 tons hull load;
Length	151 m (495 ft 5 in)
Beam	17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft	5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	2 × IHI-GE LM2500 gas turbines; 2 × KHI-RR SM1C gas turbines; 60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 shafts, cp props;
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	165
Sensors and ; processing systems	Link-11); OYQ-103 ASWCS; FCS-2-31 fire-control systems; OPS-24B air search radar; OPS-28 surface search radar; OQS-5 hull sonar; OQR-2 TASS;
Electronic warfare ; & decoys	NOLQ-3 suite; Mk. 36 SRBOC Chaff and Decoy Launching System; AN/SLQ-25 torpedo decoys;
Armament	1 × OTO Melara 76 mm gun; 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS; 8 × SSM-1B Anti-ship missile in quad canisters; 2 × triple 324 mm torpedo tubes; 16-cell Mk. 48 VLS with Evolved Sea Sparrow SAM; 16-cell Mk. 41 VLS with VL-ASROC;
Aircraft carried	1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter

JS Ikazuchi (DD-107) is the seventh ship of the Murasame-class destroyers in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. She was commissioned on 14 March 2001.^[1]

Design

The hull design was completely renovated from first-generation destroyers. In addition to increasing the size in order to reduce the underwater radiation noise, both the

mooring devices.^[2] Destroyers built under the First Defense Build-up Plan, including the former Murasame class, adopted a unique long forecastle

style called "Oranda-zaka".

The engine arrangement is COGAG as same as Asagiri class, but a pair of engines are updated to Spey SM1C. And the remaining one pair are replaced by LM2500, same as the Kongō class.^[2]

Construction and career

Ikazuchi was

Commissioned on 14 March 2001, the destroyer was incorporated into the 5th Escort Corps of the 1th Escort Corps and deployed to Yokosuka

.

From 15 to 18 August 2020, joint training was conducted with elements of the US Navy which consisted of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and several other ships in the sea and airspace south of Okinawa.^[3]

Gallery

JS Ikazuchi and JS Kongō replenish with USNS Tippecanoe on 5 December 2010.
JS Ikazuchi alongside the aircraft carrier USS George Washington on 5 December 2010.
JS Ikazuchi, USNS John Ericsson and USS Ronald Reagan on 16 August 2020.

Citations

^ "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b Abe 2000, pp. 152–157.
^ "日米共同訓練について" (PDF) (Press release) (in Japanese). Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Retrieved 25 October 2022.

References

Abe, Yasuo (July 2000). "History of JMSDF Destroyers". Ships of the World (in Japanese) (571). Kaijinn-sha.
NAID 40002155847
.

Heihachiro Fujiki (August 2003). "Development of multi-purpose DDs for "8-8 escort flotilla". Ships of the World (in Japanese) (614). Kaijinn-sha: 94–99.
Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003).
ISBN 0710630484

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[1] "DD-101 Murasame Class". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 1 November 2020.

[FOOTNOTEAbe2000152–157-2] Abe 2000, pp. 152–157.

[3] "日米共同訓練について" (PDF) (Press release) (in Japanese). Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Retrieved 25 October 2022.

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v t e Murasame-class destroyers
Murasame Harusame Yūdachi Kirisame Inazuma Samidare Ikazuchi Akebono Ariake
Preceded by: Asagiri class Followed by: Takanami class
List of destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force