JDS Kurama

History
Kurama
Japan
Name:	Kurama
Builder:	Ishikawajima-Harima, Tokyo
Laid down:	17 February 1978
Launched:	20 September 1979
Commissioned:	27 March 1981
Status:	In active service, as of 2014
General characteristics
Class and type:	Shirane-class destroyer
Displacement:	5,200 long tons (5,300 t) standard; 7,500 long tons (7,600 t) full load
Length:	159 m (522 ft)
Beam:	17.5 m (57 ft)
Draft:	5.3 m (17 ft)
Propulsion:	2 × IHI boilers 850 psi (60 kg/cm², 5.9 MPa), 430 °C 2 × turbines 2 shafts 70,000 shp (52 MW)
Speed:	31 knots (36 mph; 57 km/h)
Complement:	350 20 staff
Armament:	Sea Sparrow SAM launcher ASROC Mk 112 octuple launcher 2 × FMC 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 guns 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (Mk-46 torpedoes)
Aircraft carried:	3 × SH-60J(K) anti-submarine helicopters

JS Kurama (DDH-144) is a Shirane-class destroyer in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). She is the second and final member of the Shirane class and will be replaced by the new Izumo-class helicopter destroyers in the near future.

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References

Shirane-class destroyers

Shirane Kurama

Preceded by: Haruna class Followed by: Hyūga class

List of destroyers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

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