JDS Kurama

Kurama
History
Japan
Name:	Kurama
Builder:	Ishikawajima-Harima, Tokyo
Laid down:	17 February 1978
Launched:	20 September 1979
Commissioned:	27 March 1981
Status:	In active service, as of 2014
General characteristics
Class and type:	Shirane-class destroyer
Displacement:	5,200 long tons (5,300 t) standard; 7,500 long tons (7,600 t) full load
Length:	159 m (522 ft)
Beam:	17.5 m (57 ft)
Draft:	5.3 m (17 ft)
Propulsion:	2 × IHI boilers 850 psi (60 kg/cm², 5.9 MPa), 430 °C 2 × turbines 2 shafts 70,000 shp (52 MW)
Speed:	31 knots (36 mph; 57 km/h)
Complement:	350 20 staff
Armament:	Sea Sparrow SAM launcher ASROC Mk 112 octuple launcher 2 × FMC 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 guns 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes (Mk-46 torpedoes)
Aircraft carried:	3 × SH-60J(K) anti-submarine helicopters

JS Kurama (DDH-144) is a Shirane-class destroyer in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). She is the second and final member of the Shirane class and will be replaced by the new Izumo-class helicopter destroyers in the near future.

On 27 October 2009, JS Kurama collided with a South Korean container ship under the Kanmonkyo Bridge in the Kanmon Straits off the coast of Japan. While neither ship sunk, the bow of Kurama was badly damaged and burned for hours. Three Kurama crew members were reported injured.

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