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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=Japan | Japan|naval}} | Ship name=Ashigara (DDG-178) | Ship namesake=Mount Ashigara | Ship ordered=2003 | Ship builder=Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Nagasaki | Ship laid down=April 6, 2005 | Ship launched=August 30, 2006 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned=13 March 2008 | Ship homeport=Sasebo | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | 431999689}} | Ship honours= | Ship fate= | Ship status=In Service | Ship notes=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Atago class destroyer | Ship displacement=*7700 tons standard | 560|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 68.9|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught= | 20.3|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship propulsion=*4 Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines;- two shafts,
- 100,000 shaft horsepower (75 MW)
| Ship speed=30 knots (56 km/h) | Ship range=*4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots | Ship complement=300 | Ship sensors=AN/SPY-1D(V) | Ship EW= | Ship armament=* 1 × 5 inch (127mm/L62) Mk-45 Mod 4 naval gun in a stealth-shaped mount. (Made by Japan Steel Works licensed from its original manufacturer).- 2 × missile canister up to 8 Type 90 (SSM-1B)
- 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
- 2 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (6 × Mk-46 or Type 73 torpedoes)
- 96-cell Mk-41 VLS:
- (64 at the bow / 32 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)
| Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft=1 x SH-60K helicopter | Ship notes=
}} | 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. ServiceThis 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] Notes1. ^Seawaves,"Warships Supporting Earthquake in Japan" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110323003053/http://www.seawaves.com/japan2011.asp |date=2011-03-23 }}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaoH3ycj5O0|title=USS Carl Vinson Strike Group Sails Towards North Korea|date=28 April 2017|publisher=Gung Ho Vids|via=YouTube.com}}
External links{{commonscat-inline|JS Ashigara (DDG-178)|JS Ashigara (DDG-178)}}- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/7700ton.htm
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