JS Inazuma (DD-105)

For other ships of the same name, see Japanese destroyer Inazuma.

JS Inazuma (DD-105)
File:US Navy 040625-N-8157C-066 The Japanese destroyer JDS Inazuma (DD 105) passes Hospital Point in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.jpg JS Inazuma on 25 June 2004
Career (Japan)
Name:	Inazuma (いなづま)
Ordered:	1995
Builder:	Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Laid down:	8 May 1997
Launched:	9 September 1998
Commissioned:	15 March 2000
Homeport:	Kure
Identification:	Maritime Mobile Service Identity number: 431999646 Pennant number:DD-105
Status:	Active
General characteristics
Class & type:	Murasame-class destroyer
Displacement:	4,550 tons standard, 6,200 tons hull load
Length:	151 m (495 ft 5 in)
Beam:	17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draft:	5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:	2 × IHI-GE LM2500 gas turbines 2 × KHI-RR SM1C gas turbines 60,000 shp (45 MW) 2 shafts, cp props
Speed:	30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h)
Complement:	165
Sensors and processing systems:	OYQ-9 CDS (w/ Link-11) OYQ-103 ASWCS FCS-2-31 fire-control systems OPS-24B air search radar OPS-28 surface search radar OQS-5 hull sonar OQR-2 TASS
Electronic warfare & decoys:	NOLQ-3 suite Mk. 36 SRBOC Chaff and Decoy Launching System AN/SLQ-25 torpedo decoys
Armament:	1 × OTO Melara 76 mm gun 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 8 × SSM-1B Anti-ship missile in quad canisters 2 × triple 324 mm torpedo tubes 16-cell Mk. 48 VLS with Evolved Sea Sparrow SAM 16-cell Mk. 41 VLS with VL-ASROC
Aircraft carried:	1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter

JS Inazuma (DD-105) is the fifth ship of Murasame-class destroyers. She was commissioned on 15 March 2000.

Construction and career

Inazuma was laid down on May 8, 1997 by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagasaki as part of the 1995 plan and launched on September 9, 1998. Commissioned on March 15, 2000, the destroyer was incorporated into the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to Kure.

From August 26 to October 30, 2018, Inazuma participated in the Indo-Pacific dispatch training with the escort vessels JS Kaga and JS Suzutsuki, and visited India, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. On September 13, she joined the submarine JS Kuroshio in the South China Sea and conducted anti-submarine warfare training. On September 26, a joint training between Japan and the United Kingdom was conducted with HMS Argyll heading for the South China Sea with Kaga in the sea and airspace west of Sumatra.

On May 21, 2019, she departed for the "Reiwa first year pelagic practice voyage" with the training ship JS Kashima. The vessels visited 13 ports in 11 countries in 157 days with about 580 people, including about 190 people who completed the 69th General Executive Candidate Course (including 1 Ensign of the Royal Thai Navy), in Yokosuka on October 24.

Gallery

Inazumi passes by USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor on 29 May 2007.

Inazuma moored behind HMAS Success at Harumi Island Triton on 13 September 2009.

Inazuma departing Yokouska on 21 October 2009.

Inazuma and JS Ise at Ōita on 22 July 2012.

Inazuma and JS Kaga on 26 September 2018.

Inazuma on 29 September 2018.

Inazuma underway on 26 July 2019.

Inazuma underway on 27 September 2019.

Inazuma's bridge on 22 July 2020.

References

• Saunders, Stephen. IHS Jane's Fighting Ships 2013-2014. Jane's Information Group (2003). ISBN 0710630484
• Heihachiro Fujiki (August 2003). "Development of multi-purpose DDs for "8-8 escort flotilla" (in Japanese). Kaijinn-sha. pp. 94–99.