JDS Chōkai (DDG-176)

JS Chōkai (DDG-176)
History
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.

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

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