AKIZUKI

Akizuki (DD-115) is a modern Japanese destroyer, the keel of which was laid in 2009, it was launched in October 2010, and it was commissioned in 2012. The total length of the ship is 150.5 meters and a width of 18.3 meters. Full displacement reaches 6,800 tons and maximum speed up to 30 knots. The destroyer is armed with: a single 127 mm gun, two 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx sets, a single 8-rail Type 90 rocket launcher or a 32-rail VLS Mk.41 rocket launcher. The ship can also operate a single SH-60K helicopter. Akizuki (DD-115) is the first of four ships of the class of the same name. The Akizuki-class ships were designed and built as escort units for helicopter destroyers, and de facto light aircraft carriers, the Hyuga and Izumo-class, and Kongo or Atago-class units. It is assumed that the Akizuki-class destroyers are a largely enlarged Takanami type, but they differ from them by the use of a different propulsion unit, the use of much more modern sensors or - especially - the use of the ATECS battlefield management system. The main task of destroyers of this type is to counter air and underwater targets. It is worth adding that the Akizuki (DD-115) was built at the Nagasaki shipyard owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Its name, in turn, refers to one of the Japanese destroyers from the Second World War.