![]() JS Haguro on 26 July 2019
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History | |
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Name |
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Namesake | Mount Haguro |
Ordered | 2016 |
Builder | JMU, Yokohama |
Laid down | 23 January 2018 |
Launched | 17 July 2019 |
Commissioned | 19 March 2021 |
Identification |
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Status | Active |
Badge | ![]() |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Maya-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 169.9 m (557 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 22.2 m (72 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 6.4 m (21 ft 0 in) |
Depth | 13 m (42 ft 8 in) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
Boats & landing craft carried |
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Complement | 300 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × SH-60K helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Flight 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.
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 tests validated the ballistic missile defense capabilities of Japan's newest Maya-class destroyers.[3]