Murasame-class destroyer (1994)

JS Samidare in Pearl Harbor
Class overview
Name	Murasame class
Builders	IHI Tokyo Shipyard and Japan Marine United
Operators	Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Preceded by	Asagiri class
Succeeded by	Takanami class
Built	1993–2000
In commission	1996–present
Planned	14
Completed	9
Cancelled	5
Active	9
General characteristics
Type	General-purpose destroyer
Displacement	4,550 tons standard, 6,200 tons full 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 (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement	165
Sensors and processing systems	OYQ-9 CDS (w/ 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 × Type-90 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

The Murasame-class destroyer (むらさめ型護衛艦, Murasame-gata-goei-kan) is a class of destroyers, serving with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). This is the first class of the second-generation general-purpose destroyers of the JMSDF.^[1]