DD-103 Yuudachi

Country:  Japan

Class, [Type]: Murasame, [DD].

Builder: Sumitomo, Uraga, Japan.

Launch date: 19 August 1997.

Commission date: 04 March 1999.

Displacement ( tons ): 4.400 standard, 5.100 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 151 x 17,4 x 5,2

Main machinery: COGAG: 2 x Kawasaki/Rolls-Royce SM-1C Spey gas turbines, 2 x G.E.-IHI LM-2500 gas turbines ( 60.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 33.

Range ( miles ): 4.500 at 18 knots.

Complement: 170.

Guns: 1 x OTO Breda Compact 76mm/62, 2 x Vulcan Phalanx Mod.1 Block I Mk15 CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SSM: 8 x SSM-1B; SAM: 1 x Mk 48 VLS ( 16 x RIM-7M Sea Sparrow ); ASW: 1 x Mk 41 VLS ( 16 x ASROC missiles ).

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm HOS-302 tubes ( 2 x triple launchers ). Type 73 or Mk 46 Mod. 5 torpedoes.

Radar: Surface/Air Search: 1 x JRC OPS-28D; Air Search: 1 x Melco OPS-24; Navigation: 1 x JRC OPS-20; Fire Control: 2 x FCS-2-21 ( gun/SAM ), 2 x General Dynamics Mk 90 ( CIWS ).

Sonar: Mitsubishi OQS-5, bow-mounted, medium frequency; OQR-2 TASS towed passive array.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Mk 36 SRBOC; SLQ-25 Nixie towed acoustic torpedo; ECM/ESM: NOLQ-3, OPN-7B and OPN-11 ( interceptors ); OLT-3 and OLT-5 ( jammers ).

Helicopter: 1 x SH-60J.

Similar units:

 DD101 Murasame
 DD102 Harusame
 DD105 Inazuma