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{{Other ships|Japanese destroyer Harukaze}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= | Ship caption=Harukaze in 2000
}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= Japan | Japan|naval}} | Ship name= Harukaze (DD-101/ASU-7002) | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Mitsubishi, Nagasaki | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=15 December 1954 | Ship launched=20 September 1955 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=26 April 1956 | Ship decommissioned=5 March 1985 | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified=Auxiliary vessel ASU-7002, 27 March 1981 | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship fate= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption=[1] | Harukaze|destroyer}} | Ship tonnage= | 1700|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} standard- {{Convert|2340|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} full load
| 106|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | 10.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 3.7|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship power= | 30000|shp|0|abbr=on}}, 2 shafts | 30|kn|lk=in}} | 6000|nmi|abbr=on}} | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship complement=240 | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament=* 3 × Mark 12 5"/38 caliber guns- 4 × twin Bofors 40 mm autocannon
- 8 × K-gun depth charge launchers
- 2 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortars
| Ship armour= | Ship notes=
}} | JDS {{nihongo|Harukaze |春風| "Spring Wind"}} was the lead ship in her class of anti-submarine ships, and the first destroyer of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force to be built in Japan since the end of World War II.[2]Ship historyThe ship was laid down at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki on 15 December 1954, launched on 20 September 1955 and commissioned on 26 April 1956 with the hull number "DD-101". She was reclassified as an auxiliary vessel and renumbered "ASU-7002" on 27 March 1981,[1] before being finally decommissioned on 5 March 1985.[3] References{{Commonscat|Harukaze class destroyers}}1. ^1 {{cite web |url= http://www.seaforces.org/marint/Japan-Maritime-Self-Defense-Force/Destroyer/Harukaze-class.htm |title=Harukaze class destroyer |work=seaforces.org |year=2012 |accessdate=14 September 2012}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.mod.go.jp/e/publ/w_paper/pdf/2011/44Defense_Chronology.pdf |title=Defense Chronology |work=Japanese Ministry of Defense |year=2012 |accessdate=14 September 2012}}
3. ^{{cite web |url= http://homepage2.nifty.com/nishidah/e/dtc0105.htm |title=Materials of IJN (JMSDF Vessels - Harukaze class Destroyers) |work=homepage2.nifty.com |year=2006 |accessdate=14 September 2012}}
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