Thank you very much, Douglas and Denis!

Cheers

Vlad

Top photo!

Great shot and an impressive ship too.

Douglas.

Indeed not bad at all Vlad. Most European frigates have a similar price tag these days. In Japan, this new class of destroyer is referred to as the 25DD Class, owing to the financial year in which the construction was approved (2013, 25th year of the Heisei period).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi-class_destroyer

Thanks for this detailed info, Wartsilasulzer. Her price tag looks somewhat contained, at least when compared with, say, the US one... :)

Cheers

Vlad

JS ASAHI DD119
Ships in this class:
JS ASAHI DD119 built MHI Nagasaki commissioned 07/03/2018
JS SHIRANUI DD120 building now, MHI Nagasaki commission TBC (03/2019)
Preceded by: Akizuki class
Cost: DD119 JPY72.3 billion $893 million (constant 2009 USD)
Built: 2015–2019
In service: 2018-
In commission: 2018–
Planned: 2
Building: 1
Completed: 1
Active: 1
General characteristics
Type: Guided missile destroyer
Displacement:
5100 tonnes standard
6800 tonnes full load
Length: 151 m
Beam: 18.3 m
Draft: 5.4 m
Depth: 10.9 m
Propulsion:
COGLAG
2 x two shafts
2 x GE LM2500 turbines
Speed: 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 230
Sensors and processing systems:
OYQ-11 ACDS
OQQ-24 ASW system
OQR-4 Towed sonar array system
Armament:
Guns
1 × 127 mms (5 in)/62 gun
Missiles
8 × Type 90 SSM
1 × Mk 41 VLS (32cells)
RIM-162 ESSM SAM
RUM-139 VL-ASROC (DD 115)
Type07 VL-ASROC (DD 116 to DD 118)
CIWS
2 × 20 mms Phalanx Block1B CIWS
Torpedoes
2 × HOS-303 triple 324 mms torpedo tubes
Anti-torpedo System
Aircraft carried: 1 × SH-60K helicopter