JS Haguro on 26 July 2019
History
Japan
Name
  • Haguro
  • (はぐろ)
NamesakeMount Haguro
Ordered2016
BuilderJMU, Yokohama
Laid down23 January 2018
Launched17 July 2019
Commissioned19 March 2021
Identification
StatusActive
Badge
General characteristics
Class and typeMaya-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 8,200 long tons (8,332 t) standard
  • 10,250 long tons (10,414 t) full load
Length169.9 m (557 ft 5 in)
Beam22.2 m (72 ft 10 in)
Draft6.4 m (21 ft 0 in)
Depth13 m (42 ft 8 in)
Propulsion
Speed30 knots (56 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried
Complement300
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
Aircraft carried1 × SH-60K helicopter
Aviation facilitiesFlight deck and enclosed hangar for one helicopter

JS Haguro (DDG-180) is the second Maya-class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).[1] She was named after Mount Haguro, one of Three Mountains of Dewa in Yamagata Prefecture.

Operational history

Haguro participated in the 2022 Pacific Dragon exercise.[2] On 16 November 2022, the guided-missile destroyer Maya fired an SM-3 Block IIA missile, successfully intercepting the target outside the atmosphere in the first launch of the missile from a Japanese warship. On 18 November 2022, the Haguro likewise fired an SM-3 Block IB missile with a successful hit outside the atmosphere. Both test firings were conducted at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai Island, Hawaii, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Missile Defense Agency. This was the first time the two ships conducted SM-3 firings in the same time period, and the testes validated the ballistic missile defense capabilities of Japan's newest Maya-class destroyers.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "新イージス艦「はぐろ」進水＝21年就役、8隻体制へ－海自" ["JS Haguro" will be commissioned in 2021, enable eight ships formation - JMSDF] (in Japanese). Jiji Press. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  2. ↑ Mahadzir, Dzirhan (16 August 2022). "U.S. Joins South Korea, Australia, Japan, Canada for Missile Defense Exercise Following RIMPAC". USNI News. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  3. ↑ Mahadzir, Dzirhan (November 21, 2022). "Two Japanese Destroyers Score in Ballistic Missile Defense Test off Hawaii". News Blog. United States Naval Institute. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
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