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The Yukikaze, a particularly notable Japanese destroyer of World War II. Japanese destroyers of World War II included some of the most formidable destroyers (駆逐艦, kuchikukan) of their day. This came as a surprise to the Allies, who had generally underestimated Japanese technical capabilities. The Japanese had reassessed their naval needs ...
The JMSDF operates two multi-purpose operation destroyers (de facto aircraft carriers), two helicopter carriers (called helicopter destroyers), 36 destroyers, six frigates, six destroyer escorts, 23 attack submarines, 19 mine countermeasure vessels, six patrol vessels, three landing ship tanks, seven training vessels, and a fleet of various ...
List of destroyers of World War II Ship Operator Class Type Displacement (tons) First commissioned Fate Aaron Ward (DD-483) United States Navy: Gleaves: Destroyer 1,630 4 March 1942 sunk 7 April 1943 [5] Aaron Ward (DM-34) Robert H. Smith: Destroyer minelayer: 2,200 28 October 1944 decommissioned 1945, sold for scrap 1946 Abbot: Fletcher ...
These twenty-three 'turtle-back' destroyers, all authorised under the Ten Year Naval Expansion Programme of 1898, comprised six Ikazuchi class built by Yarrow [4] and six Murakumo class built by Thornycroft [5] in the UK, each carrying 1 × 12-pdr (aft) and 5 x 6-pdr guns and 2 × 18 in torpedo tubes, and followed by two larger ships from each of the same builders (the Shirakumo class from ...
Technical drawing of the Fletcher-class destroyer Launch of Fletcher and Radford, 3 May 1942 World War II Destroyer Shipbuilders map from Department of Defense (DoD) The Fletcher class was the first generation of destroyers designed after the series of naval treaties that had limited ship designs heretofore.
Yukikaze (雪風, "Snowy Wind") was a Kagerō-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.She was the only member of her class to survive the war, and did so without suffering any major damage.
JMSDF ensign of Japan. List of active ships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is a list of ships in active service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. The JMSDF is one of the world's largest navies, and the second largest navy in Asia in terms of fleet tonnage. [1]
This class adopted a "long forecastle" design with inclined afterdeck called "Holland Slope", named after the scenic sloping street in Nagasaki City. [2] Their steam turbine propulsion systems were similar to the ones of the Harukaze class, but they varied between each ship in the class as part of the JMSDF's attempt to find the best propulsion system for its future surface combatants.