JDS Kongō (DDG-173)

History
Japan
Name:	JS Kongō
Namesake:	Mount Kongō
Ordered:	1988
Builder:	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Laid down:	8 May 1990
Launched:	26 September 1991
Commissioned:	25 March 1993
Status:	in active 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 shp (75,000 kW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
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)
Aviation facilities:	1 × SH-60K helicopter

JS Kongō (DDG-173) is a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Kongō is the third Japanese naval vessel named for Mount Kongō.

She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on 8 May 1990, launched on 26 September 1991; and commissioned on 25 March 1993. Kongō was the first ship outside of the United States to feature the Aegis integrated weapon system.

In December 2007, Japan conducted a successful test of the SM-3 block IA against a ballistic missile aboard Kongō. This was the first time a Japanese ship was selected to launch the interceptor missile during a test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. In previous tests they provided tracking and communications.

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