JS Ashigara – Wikipedia

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Atago-class guided missile destroyer

JS Ashigara (DDG-178) is an Atago-class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Ashigara was named for Mount Ashigara, and is the first Japanese ship to bear the prefix JS (Japanese Ship) instead of JDS (Japanese Defense Ship).

She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on April 6, 2005, launched on August 30, 2006; and was commissioned on 13 March 2008.

Service[edit]

This ship was one of several in the JMSDF fleet participating in disaster relief after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[1]

In late April 2017, the Ashigara along with the JS Samidare joined the US Navy’s Carrier Strike Group 1 as the Strike Group moved into position off the Korean peninsula in response to escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States over the DPRK’s nuclear weapons program.[2]

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Ashigara and the JS Ise participated in the RIMPAC exercises in the waters around Hawaii on August 17-30, 2020.[3]

Gallery[edit]

  • JS Ashigara on 3 June 2007

    JS Ashigara on 3 June 2007

  • JS Ashigara and JS Asahi on 2 January 2017

    JS Ashigara and JS Asahi on 2 January 2017

  • JS Ashigara on 25 November 2017

    JS Ashigara on 25 November 2017

  • JS Ashigara(DDG-178) left front view at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard November 25, 2017 03.jpg
  • JS Ashigara on 18 August 2020

    JS Ashigara on 18 August 2020

  1. ^ Seawaves,“Warships Supporting Earthquake in Japan” Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^

    “USS Carl Vinson Strike Group Sails Towards North Korea”. Gung Ho Vids. 28 April 2017. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via YouTube.com.

  3. ^ “JS ISE (DDH 182) arrived at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii”. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force.

External links[edit]

Media related to JS Ashigara (DDG-178) at Wikimedia Commons


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