FUYUZUKI

Fuyuzuki (DD-118) is a modern Japanese missile destroyer, the keel of which was laid in 2011, launched in August 2012, and commissioned in March 2014. 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. Fuyuzuki (DD-118) is the fourth and last of Akizuki's class destroyers. The ships of this type were designed and built as escort units for helicopter destroyers, and de facto light aircraft carriers, the Hyuga and Izumo types, and the Kongo or Atago type units, using the AEGIS system. The main tasks of Akizuki-class ships include fighting air and submarine targets, but they also have considerable ability to destroy surface ships. It is assumed that the Akizuki-class destroyers are a largely enlarged Takanami type, but they differ in the use of a different propulsion unit, the use of much more modern sensors or - especially - the use of the ATECS battlefield management system. It is worth noting that the Fuyuzuki (DD-118) - unlike all other ships of her class - was built in the shipyard belonging to the Mitsui concern in the city of Tanamo. Its name, in turn, refers to one of the Japanese destroyers from the Second World War, belonging to the Akizuki class.