JS Hamagiri

The Asagiri class is equipped for combat and interception missions, and is primarily armed with anti-ship weapons. They carry two Mk-141 Guided Missile Launching System (GMLS), which are anti-ship missile systems. The ship is also fitted to be used against submarines. They also carries the Mk-32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes (SVTT), which can be used as an anti-submarine weapon. The ship has two of these systems abeam to starboard and to port. They are also fitted with an Oto-Melara 62-caliber gun to be used against sea and air targets.^[1]

They are 137 m (449 ft 6 in) long. The ship has a range of 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km; 9,200 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) with a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). The ship can have up to 220 personnel on board. The ship is also fitted to accommodate for one aircraft. The ship's flight deck can be used to service a SH-60J9(K) Seahawk helicopter.^[1]

Hamagiri was laid down on 20 January 1987 and launched on 4 June 1988 by Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Maizuru. She was commissioned on 31 January 1990.^{[citation needed]}

The Hamagiri was deployed to Somalia alongside the Takanami to the Gulf of Aden on October 4, 2009 to take over anti-piracy operations from the Harusame and the Amagiri.^[2]

The vessel was dispatched to the Great East Japan Earthquake caused by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku Earthquake on 11 March 2011.^{[citation needed]}

On 7 April 2013, as the 15th dispatched anti-piracy action surface corps, the destroyer sailed off the coast of Somalia with the escort ship JS Akebono, completed the mission, and returned to Ominato on 27 September 2013.^[3][4] On 26 and 28 October 2014, she participated in the Japan-Russia search and rescue joint training conducted in the port of Vladivostok, Russia and off the coast of Vladivostok.^[5]

From 20 to 25 November 2017, Hamagiri participated in the Japan-Russia search and rescue joint training conducted at Vladivostok Port and the surrounding waters with the Russian Navy destroyer Admiral Vinogradov.^[6]

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  JS Hamagiri alongside USS Kitty Hawk and JS Ariake on 16 November 2002.
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  JS Hamagiri, USS Essex, JS Myōkō, JS Shimakaze and JS Natsushio at Okinawa on 28 February 2003.
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  JS Hamagiri at Pearl Harbor on 4 May 2004.
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  JS Hamagiri coming alongside USS Ronald Reagan on 17 March 2007.
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  JS Hamagiri coming alongside USS Ronald Reagan on 17 March 2007.
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  JS Hamagiri on 17 March 2007.
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  JS Hamagiri with JS Haruna, USS Russell, JS Myōkō, USS Lake Champlain, and JS Yūgiri 18 March 2007.
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  JS Hatsuyuki, JS Amagiri and Hamagiri at Yokosuka on 17 June 2007.
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  JS Hatsuyuki, JS Amagiri and Hamagiri at Yokosuka on 17 June 2007.
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  JS Hatsuyuki, JS Amagiri and Hamagiri at Yokosuka on 17 June 2007.
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  JS Hamagiri at Hakodate on 10 August 2007.
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  JS Hamagiri on 16 November 2007
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  JS Hamagiri on 17 November 2007.
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  JS Hamagiri underway on 6 December 2010.
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  JS Hamagiri with BRP Jose Rizal behind, 8 March 2025.
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  JS Hamagiri with KD Lekiu behind, 8 March 2025.