JS Asagiri
# JS Asagiri

JS Asagiri (DD-151) is an Asagiri-class destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

## Development and design

The Asagiri class is equipped for combat and interception missions, and is primarily armed with anti-ship weapons. They carries two of the Mk-141 Guided Missile Launching System (GMLS), which are anti-ship missile systems. The ship is also fitted to be used against submarines. She also carries the Mk-32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes (SVTT), which can be used as an anti-submarine weapon. The ship has two of these systems abeam to starboard and to port. They are fitted with an Oto-Melara 62-caliber gun to be used against sea and air targets.

They are 137 m (449 ft 6 in) long. The ship has a range of 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) with a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). The ship can have up to 220 personnel on board. The ship is also fitted to accommodate for one aircraft. The ship's flight deck can be used to service a SH-60J9(K) Seahawk helicopter.

## Construction and career

She was laid down on 13 February 1985 and launched on 19 September 1986 by IHI Corporation, Tokyo. She was commissioned on 17 March 1988.

On 16 February 2005, she was reclassified to a training ship, the ship hull number changed to TV-3516, and it was transferred to the training fleet 1st training corps.

In 2008 and 2011, she participated in the practicing voyage to the ocean with the training ship JS Kashima.

On 14 March 2012, she was reclassified to an escort ship again, and the ship registration number was changed to DD-151 in the escort ship era. Reorganized into the 14th escort fleet of the escort fleet, the fixed port became Maizuru, and transferred to the same area.

In late August 2019, she took over the mission of JS Sazanami, and on 1 September, on her way back to Japan, she stopped at Muscat, the capital of Oman in the Middle East, and conducted tactical movements and communication training with the Omani patrol boat Al Seeb in the waters around the country and conducted goodwill training. Joint training with the Philippine Navy corvette BRP Emilio Jacinto was held from 24–26 September. On 4 October, she returned to Maizuru after completing her mission off the coast of Somalia.

## Gallery

* JS Asagiri as a training ship on 31 July 2011.
* JS Asagiri at Pearl Harbor on 10 October 2011.
* JS Asagiri at Pearl Harbor on 10 October 2011.
* JS Asagiri alongside JS Kashima on 26 October 2011.
* JS Asagiri on 25 October 2014.
* JS Asagiri with an Udaloy-class destroyer on 23 June 2018.
