Takatsuki-class destroyer

{{Short description|Class of Japanese warships}}

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|Ship image= JS Nagatsuki (DD-167) in New York Harbor, -4 Jul. 1986 a.jpg

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|Ship caption=JS Nagatsuki in 1986

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{{Infobox ship class overview

|Name=Takatsuki class

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|Operators={{navy|Japan}}

|Class before={{sclass|Yamagumo|destroyer|4}}

|Class after={{sclass|Minegumo|destroyer|4}}

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|Cost=

|Built range= 1964–1970

|In service range=

|In commission range= 1967–2003

|Total ships building=

|Total ships planned=4

|Total ships completed=4

|Total ships cancelled=

|Total ships active=

|Total ships laid up=

|Total ships lost=

|Total ships retired=4

|Total ships preserved=

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|Ship type=Destroyer

|Ship displacement=*{{convert|3100|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard

  • {{convert|4500|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full load

|Ship length={{convert|136.0|m|ftin|abbr=on}} overall

|Ship beam={{convert|13.4|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship draft={{convert|4.4|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

|Ship propulsion=*{{convert|60000|shp|MW|0|abbr=on}}, 2 shafts

  • (Takatsuki and Nagatsuki)
  • 2 × Mitsubishi/WH reaction/impulse steam turbines
  • 2 × Mitsubishi CE water tube boilers
  • (Kikuzuki)
  • 2 × Mitsubishi/EW impulse steam turbines
  • 2 × Mitsubishi CE water tube boilers
  • (Mochizuki)
  • 2 × Kawasaki Model NH-300 impulse steam turbines
  • 2 × Kawasaki Model BD-120-1 water tube boilers

|Ship speed={{convert|32|kn|lk=in}}

|Ship range={{convert|6000|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|16|kn|abbr=on}}

|Ship endurance=

|Ship complement=*270 (Takatsuki, 1967),

  • 260 (Takatsuki, 1985)

|Ship sensors=*OPS-11B EWR, OPS-17 SSR, AN/SQS-23, AN/SQS-35(J),

|Ship EW=*NOLR-1B,

  • NOLQ-1 (1986)

|Ship armament=*(Takatsuki, 1967)

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The Takatsuki-class destroyer was a series of four destroyers constructed for and operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Built between 1964 and 1970, the destroyers were mainly used for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) duties and were designed to operate the DASH unmanned ASW drone system. The system did not work and was removed from all four ships in 1977. In the mid-1980s, the first two ships of the class were modernized, receiving surface-to-air and anti-ship missiles. The final two ships were scheduled to be modernized, but the program was cancelled.

Modernization

From 1985 to 1988, Takatsuki and Kikuzuki were upgraded with Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile launchers, Harpoon missile anti-ship missile launchers, Phalanx CIWS systems (Kikuzuki only), new FCS (FCS-2-12) fire control radar and TASS. Mochizuki and Nagatsuki were in the upgrade program, but were eventually not upgraded.{{Cite web |last=D-Mitch |title=The evolution of Japanese destroyers after WWII |url=https://www.navalanalyses.com/2016/06/the-evolution-of-japanese-destroyers.html |access-date=2024-06-13}}

Ships

class=wikitable
colspan="7" align="center" | Takatsuki class construction data{{sfn|Scheina|Grove|1995|p=226}}
Pennant no.

! Name

! Builder

! Laid down

! Launched

! Completed

! Fate

DD-164

| {{ship|JDS|Takatsuki

2}}

| Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Tokyo

| 8 October 1964

| 7 January 1966

| 15 March 1967

| Decommissioned 16 August 2002

DD-165

| {{ship|JDS|Kikuzuki

2}}

| Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki Shipyard

| 15 March 1966

| 25 March 1967

| 27 March 1968

| Decommissioned 6 November 2003

DD-166

| {{ship|JDS|Mochizuki

2}}

| Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Tokyo

| 25 November 1966

| 15 March 1968

| 25 March 1969

| Converted to an auxiliary ship (Pennant no. ASU-7019) on 16 March 1995, decommissioned on 19 March 1999

DD-167

| {{ship|JDS|Nagatsuki

2}}

| Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki Shipyard

| 2 March 1968

| 19 March 1969

| 12 February 1970

| Decommissioned 1 April 1996 and sunk as target on 3 August 1998

References

=Citations=

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=Bibliography=

  • {{cite book |last1=Scheina |first1=Robert L. |last2=Grove |first2=Eric |chapter=Japan |editor-last1=Gardiner |editor-first1=Robert |editor-last2=Chumbley |editor-first2=Stephen |editor-last3=Budzbon |editor-first3=Przemysław |name-list-style=amp |year=1995 |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location=Annapolis, Maryland |isbn=1-55750-132-7 |pages=220–242}}

Further reading

  • The Maru Special, Ships of the JMSDF No.57 Takatsuki class escort vessels, Ushio Shobō (Japan), November 1981
  • The Maru Special, Ships of the JMSDF No.78 Electronics weapons, Power Plants and Helicopters, Ushio Shobō (Japan), August 1983

{{Takatsuki class destroyers}}

{{Combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force}}

Category:Destroyer classes