JS Suzunami (DD-114)

For other uses, see Suzunami.
JS Suzunami at Maizuru
History
Name: JS Suzunami
Builder: IHI Marine United
Laid down: 24 September 2003
Launched: 26 August 2004
Commissioned: 16 February 2006
Homeport: Ōminato, Aomori Prefecture
Status: in active service, as of 2016
General characteristics
Class and type: Takanami-class destroyer
Displacement: 4,650 long tons (4,725 t) standard 6,300 long tons (6,401 t) full load
Length: 151 m (495 ft)
Beam: 17.4 m (57 ft)
Height: 10.9 m (36 ft)
Draft: 5.3 m (17 ft)
Propulsion:
Speed: 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement: 175
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • OPS-25B Radar
  • OPS-28D Surface Search Radar
  • OPS-20 Navigational Radar
  • OQS-5 Sonar
  • UQR-2 Towed Sonar
  • Type 81 Fire Control System
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • NOLQ-3 ECM system
  • 4 × Mk137 Chaff Dispensers
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × SH-60J(K) anti-submarine helicopter [1]

JS Suzunami (すずなみ) is the fifth vessel of the Takanami-class destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

Suzunami was authorized under the Medium-term defense buildup plan of 1996, and was built by IHI Marine United shipyards in Yokohama. She was laid down on 24 September 2003, launched on 26 August 2004. She was commissioned into service on 16 February 2006.[2] and was initially assigned to the JMSDF Escort Flotilla 3 based at Maizuru, Kyoto.

Service

Suzunami, along with the fleet oiler Hamana were assigned to the Indian Ocean in March 2007 to provide assistance in refueling anti-terrorist coalition forces in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. She returned to Japan in July 2007. On 25 March 2008, she was reassigned to the JMSDF Escort Flotilla 1, based at Yokosuka, Kanagawa.

On 21 July 2009, Suzunami, along with the fleet oiler Oumi, was again dispatched for coalition refueling operations in the Indian Ocean. She returned to Japan on the completion of this mission on 24 December 2009. On 1 August 2011, she was reassigned to the JMSDF Escort Flotilla 3, based at Ōminato, Aomori Prefecture.

On 8 April 2010, while monitoring a fleet of five People's Liberation Army Navy warships in international waters in the East China Sea, Suzunami was buzzed at abnormally low altitude by a Chinese helicopter. This incident led the Japanese government to file a protest against the Chinese government on 12 April.

On 13 August 2012 Suzunami was dispatched to Aden, Yemen, as part of ongoing anti-piracy escort operations off the coast of Somalia. The context for this extended deployment off the Horn of Africa was the "Law on the Penalization of Acts of Piracy and Measures Against Acts of Piracy (Anti-Piracy Measures Law)".[3] During this deployments, she made a port call at Port Klang, Malaysia from 29–30 December.[4]

Suzunamireturned to Yokosuka on 10 June 2013 and remains assigned to the Third Squadron of the JMSDF Escort Flotilla 3.

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