:JS Yūdachi (DD-103)
{{short description|Destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force}}
{{Other ships|Japanese destroyer Yūdachi}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image=File:JS Yu^dachi atMaizuru.jpg | Ship caption=JS Yūdachi on 7 September 2019. }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= Japan | Ship flag= {{Shipboxflag|Japan|naval}} | Ship name= *Yūdachi
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|Ship displacement=* 4,550 tons standard,
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JS Yūdachi (DD-103) is the third ship of {{sclass|Murasame|destroyer (1994)|2}} destroyers. She was commissioned on 4 March 1999.{{Cite web|title=DD-101 Murasame Class|url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/murasame.htm|access-date=1 November 2020|website=www.globalsecurity.org}}{{Unreliable source|date=January 2025}}
Design
The hull design was completely renovated from first-generation DDs. In addition to increasing the size in order to reduce the underwater radiation noise, both superstructure and hull was inclined to reduce the radar cross-section. There is however no angled tripod mainmast like the one of the American {{sclass|Arleigh Burke|destroyer|1}} because of the heavy weather of the Sea of Japan in winter. The aft was designed like a "mini-Oranda-zaka" as with the {{sclass|Kongō|destroyer|4}} to avoid interference between helicopters and mooring devices.{{Sfn|Abe|2000|pp=152-157}} Destroyers built under the First Defense Build-up Plan, including the former {{sclass|Murasame|destroyer|4||1958}}, 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 Kongō class.{{Sfn|Abe|2000|pp=152-157}}
Construction and career
Yūdachi was laid down on 18 March 1996 at Sumitomo Heavy Industries Yokosuka as the 1994 plan and launched on 19 August 1997. Commissioned on 4 March 1999, was incorporated into the 6th Escort Corps of the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Ōminato.
On 6 March 2016, as the 24th dispatched anti-piracy action surface corps, she departed from Ominato base for the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia with the escort ship {{JS|Yūgiri}} and returned to Ominato on 8 September. In addition, on 1 September, on the way back to Japan, a goodwill training was conducted with the Philippine Navy's {{ship|BRP|Rajah Humabon|PS-11|6}}.{{Cite press release |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/info/news/201609/20160902-01.pdf |title=フィリピン海軍との親善訓練の実施について |language=ja |trans-title=Goodwill Training with the Philippine Navy |access-date=1 November 2020 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029145052/https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/info/news/201609/20160902-01.pdf |url-status=dead |publisher=Maritime Staff Office}}{{Cite press release |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2016/press_pdf/p20160224_01.pdf |title=派遣海賊対処行動水上部隊の交代について |language=ja |trans-title=Regarding replacement of deployed anti-piracy surface forces |publisher=Joint Staff Press Release |access-date=1 November 2020 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029145028/https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2016/press_pdf/p20160224_01.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Yūdachi left with the 40th Surface Force from Ominato on 10 October 2021 to conduct a 14-day anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden. Owing to the spread of COVID-19 at the time, all of Yūdachi{{'}}s crew underwent PCR testing before departure.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=28 September 2021 |title=派遣海賊対処行動水上部隊の出港について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2021/press_pdf/p20210928_01.pdf |trans-title=Departure of the Dispatched Anti-Piracy Surface Force |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Joint Staff Office |access-date=22 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928110258/https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2021/press_pdf/p20210928_01.pdf |archive-date=28 September 2021}} While sailing through the South China Sea, Yūdachi conducted joint training with the {{sclass|Independence|littoral combat ship}} {{USS|Jackson|LCS-6|6}} on 28 October 2021.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=29 October 2021 |title=日米共同訓練について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202110/20211029-1.pdf |trans-title=Japan-U.S. Joint Training |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Maritime Staff Office |access-date=22 January 2025}}
Under Captain Wakushima Hidetaka, on 29 January 2022, Yūdachi was involved in a training exercise with the {{ship|German frigate|Bayern}} in the Gulf of Aden, with cross-deck, tactical and close-combat maneuvers being conducted.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=31 January 2022 |title=ドイツ海軍との共同訓練の実施について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2022/press_pdf/p20220131_01.pdf |trans-title=Joint training with the German Navy |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Joint Staff Office |access-date=22 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226062240/https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2022/press_pdf/p20220131_01.pdf |archive-date=26 February 2022}} In the same year, from 1 to 4 March, Yūdachi participated in the Indian Navy-led multinational joint exercise MILAN 2022, near Visakhapatnam, which also marked the first time the JMSDF had taken part in this particular event.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=25 February 2022 |title=インド海軍主催多国間共同訓練（ＭＩＬＡＮ２０２２）への参加について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202202/20220225-2.pdf |trans-title=Participation in Multinational Joint Exercise (MILAN 2022) hosted by the Indian Navy |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Maritime Staff Office |access-date=22 January 2025}} On 5 March Yūdachi conducted joint training with {{HMAS|Arunta|FFH 151|6}} in the Bay of Bengal, and on the following day, she met {{RSS|Tenacious}} of the Republic of Singapore Navy in a goodwill training.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=7 March 2022 |title=オーストラリア海軍及びシンガポール海軍との訓練について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202203/20220307-1.pdf |trans-title=Training with the Royal Australian Navy and the Singaporean Navy |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Maritime Staff Office |access-date=22 January 2025}} From 14 to 16 March 2022, Yūdachi joined {{USS|Momsen}} and HMAS Arunta in a joint training in the South China Sea, accompinaied by the US Navy's P-8 and the RAAF's AP-3C.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=17 March 2022 |title=日米豪共同訓練について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202203/20220317-01.pdf |trans-title=Japan-US-Australia Joint Training |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Maritime Staff Office |access-date=22 January 2025}} She returned to Ominato on 11 April of the same year.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=29 March 2022 |title=ソマリア沖・アデン湾において派遣海賊対処行動に従事した艦艇の帰港について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2022/press_pdf/p20220329_03.pdf |trans-title=Regarding the return of the vessels that engaged in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Joint Staff Office |access-date=23 January 2025 |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629165323/https://www.mod.go.jp/js/Press/press2022/press_pdf/p20220329_03.pdf}}
On 21 September 2023 Yūdachi conducted joint training with {{USS|Robert Smalls}} in Sagami Bay.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=22 September 2023 |title=日米共同訓練について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202309/2023092202.pdf |trans-title=Japan-U.S. Joint Training |language= |location= |publisher= |agency=Maritime Staff Office |access-date=23 January 2025}} In the same year, from 30 September to 10 October, she and {{JS|Noshiro||2}} participated in a joint US-Japanese training south of Kanto region in the East China Sea with the aircraft carrier {{USS|Ronald Reagan}}, cruisers {{USS|Antietam|CG-54|2}} and Robert Smalls, and the destroyer {{USS|Shoup||2}}.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=10 October 2023 |title=日米共同訓練について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202310/20231010_2.pdf |trans-title=Japan-U.S. Joint Training |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Maritime Staff Office |access-date=23 January 2025}}
Yūdachi participated in another US-Japanese joint training in the East China Sea off the coast of southern Shikoku from 19 to 21 November 2023, this time with the carrier {{USS|Carl Vinson}}, and destroyers {{USS|Hopper|DDG-70|2}}, {{USS|Kidd|DDG-100|2}}, {{USS|Sterett|DDG-104|2}}, and {{USS|William P. Lawrence|DDG-110|2}}.{{cite press release |last= |first= |date=22 November 2023 |title=日米共同訓練について |url=https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202311/20231122_01.pdf |trans-title=Japan-U.S. Joint Training |language=ja |location= |publisher= |agency=Maritime Staff Office |access-date=23 January 2025}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite journal|first=Yasuo|last=Abe|date=July 2000|title=History of JMSDF Destroyers|journal=Ships of the World|issue=571|publisher=Kaijinn-sha|language=Japanese|id={{NAID|40002155847}}}}
Further reading
- Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003). {{ISBN|0710630484}}
- {{Cite journal|author=Heihachiro Fujiki|date=August 2003|title=Development of multi-purpose DDs for "8-8 escort flotilla|journal=Ships of the World|language=Japanese|publisher=Kaijinn-sha|issue=614|pages=94–99}}
External links
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