JDS Chōkai

History
JS Chōkai (DDG-176)
Japan
Name:	JS Chōkai (DDG-176)
Namesake:	Mount Chōkai
Ordered:	1993
Builder:	IHI Corporation, Tokyo
Laid down:	May 29, 1995
Launched:	August 27, 1996
Commissioned:	March 20, 1998
Fate:	Active
Status:	In service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Kongō-class destroyer
Displacement:	7500 tons standard 9500 tons full load
Length:	528.2 ft (161.0 m)
Beam:	68.9 ft (21.0 m)
Draft:	20.3 ft (6.2 m)
Propulsion:	4 Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,334 km at 37 km/h)
Complement:	300
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPY-1D OPS-28 surface search radar OQS-102 bow mounted sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	NOLQ-2 intercept / jammer
Armament:	1 × 5 inch (127 mm) / 54 caliber Oto-Breda Compact Gun 2 × missile canister up to 8 RGM-84 Harpoon SSM 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (6 × Mk-46 or Type 73 torpedoes) 90-cell Mk-41 VLS: (29 at the bow / 61 cells at the stern aft) for a mix of: SM-2MR Standard Missile SM-3 Anti-Ballistic Missile RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC (Anti-Submarine)
Aircraft carried:	1 × SH-60K helicopter

JS Chōkai (DDG-176) is a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Chōkai was named for Mount Chōkai.

She was laid down by IHI Corporation in Tokyo on May 29, 1995, launched on August 27, 1996; and commissioned on March 20, 1998.

Service

This ship was one of several in the JMSDF fleet participating in disaster relief after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.^[1] In 2016, she participated in the biannual Exercise RIMPAC.

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Kongō-class destroyers

Kongō Kirishima Myōkō Chōkai

Preceded by: Hatakaze class Followed by: Atago class

List of destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

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