JS Kongo
DDG-173
1993
(Albatros ALK-458)
- Class: Kongo -- 4 guided missile destroyers of 1990-98
- Displacement: 7,500 tons standard / 9,500 tons full load
- Dimensions: 528'2" x 68'9" x 20'3"
- Machinery: 4 Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp = 30 knots
- Missiles: VLS (29 cells forward, 61 cells aft) for SM-2 Standard SAM, ASROC ASW); 8 RGM-84 Harpoon (2x4) SSM
- Guns: 1-127mm/54 OTO Melara, 2-20mm Phalanx CIWS (2x1)
- ASW weapons: 6-12.75" TT (2x3)
- Helicopter: 1 SH-60K ASW
- Complement: 300
- Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Nagasaki, Japan
- Keel Laid: 8 May 1990
- Launched: 26 Sep 1991
- Commissioned: 25 Mar 1993
- Notes: Kongo was the first ship outside U.S. to feature the Aegis integrated weapon system. Sister ships Kirishima, Myoko, and Chokai.
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