:JS Kuroshio (SS-596)
{{short description|Oyashio-class submarines}}
{{Other ships|Japanese submarine Kuroshio}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image=File:SS-596 くろしお (2).jpg | Ship caption=JS Kuroshio }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= Japan | Ship flag= {{Shipboxflag|Japan|naval}} | Ship name= *Kuroshio
| Ship namesake=Kuroshio | Ship ordered=1999 | Ship awarded= | Ship original cost=¥52.19 million | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= 27 March 2000 | Ship launched= 23 October 2002 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= 8 March 2004 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= *Kure | Ship identification=*Pennant number: SS-596 | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate= | Ship status= Active | Ship notes= | Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class={{sclass|Oyashio|submarine}} |Ship displacement=*2,750 tonnes (surfaced)
|Ship length={{convert|81.7|m|ftin|lk=on|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|8.9|m|ftin|lk=on|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|7.4|m|ftin|lk=on|abbr=on}} |Ship draft= |Ship propulsion=*Diesel-electric
|Ship speed=*{{convert|12|kn|lk=in}} (surfaced)
|Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship complement=70 (10 officers) |Ship sensors=*Sonar: Hughes/Oki ZQQ-6 hull-mounted sonar, flank arrays, 1 towed array
|Ship EW= |Ship armament=*6 × HU-605 {{convert|21|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} torpedo tubes with 20 reloads for:
|Ship notes= }} |
JS Kuroshio (SS-596) is the seventh boat of the {{sclass|Oyashio|submarine}}s. She was commissioned on 8 March 2004.{{Cite book|last=Takao|first=Ishibashi|title=All Maritime Self-Defense Force Ships 1952-2002|publisher=Namiki Shobo|year=2002|isbn=|location=|pages=}}
Construction and career
Kuroshio was laid down at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard on 27 March 2000 and launched on 23 October 2003. She was commissioned on 8 March 2004 and deployed to Kure.{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=World Ships Special Edition 66th Collection Maritime Self-Defense Force All Ship History|publisher=Gaijinsha|year=2004|isbn=|location=|pages=}}{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=World Ships Special Edition Vol. 665: History of Maritime Self-Defense Force Submarines|publisher=Gaijinsha|year=2006|isbn=|location=|pages=}}
The vessel participated in RIMPAC 2006 from 26 June to 28 July 2006.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
On 15 March 2011, she was transferred to the 3rd Submarine Group of the 1st Submarine Group.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
From 23 September to 19 December 2015, she participated in RIMPAC 2015.{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}}
On 27 August 2018, she left Kure and entered the South China Sea through the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines. After that, she joined three ships including the escort ship {{JS|Kaga}} of the Indo-Pacific dispatch training unit, and conducted anti-submarine warfare training in the South China Sea on 13 September.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date= |title=対潜戦訓練の実施について |trans-title=Anti-submarine warfare training |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/201809/20180917-2.pdf |language=ja |location= |publisher=Maritime Staff Office |agency= |access-date=3 January 2025}}{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=September 18, 2018|title=Control China, submarine training in the South China Sea, Maritime Self-Defense Force announced|work=Yomiuri Shimbun|url=|url-status=|access-date=}}{{deadlink|date=September 2023}} After that, from 17–21 September, the vessel called at the Port of Cam Ranh, Vietnam and carried out a goodwill visit to the Vietnam Navy submarine unit.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date= |title=ベトナム海軍への親善訪問について |trans-title=Goodwill visit to the Vietnamese Navy |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/201809/20180917-1.pdf |language=ja |location= |publisher=Maritime Staff Office |agency= |access-date=3 January 2025}}
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