JDS ''Mogami'' (DE-212) is the second ship of of

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force , abbreviated , also simply known as the Japanese Navy, is the maritime warfare branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. The JMSDF was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) ...

(JMSDF).

Development and design

This class was the first JMSDF surface combatant adopted shelter-deck design. Propulsion systems varied in each vessels because the JMSDF tried to find the best way in the propulsion systems of future destroyer escorts. The design concept of this class and the

CODAD Combined diesel and diesel (CODAD) is a propulsion system for ships using two diesel engines to power a single propeller shaft. A gearbox and clutches enable either of the engines or both of them together to drive the shaft. Two advantages over ...

propulsion system of the ''Kitakami'' class became prototype of them of the latter destroyer escorts and destroyers such as and . The gun system was a scale-down version of the , four 3"/50 caliber Mark 22 guns with two Mark 33 dual mounts controlled by a Mark 63 GFCS. Main air-search radar was a OPS-2, Japanese variant of the American AN/SPS-12.

Construction and career

''Mogami'' was

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on 4 August 1960 at

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and launched on 7 March 1961. The vessel was commissioned on 28 October 1961 and was incorporated into the Maizuru District Force with . Modernization work was carried out from 15 October 1974 to 5 February 1975, and the Mk 108 anti-submarine rocket launcher and Mk.2 short torpedo launcher were removed, and the Type 71 Bofors rocket launcher and Type 68 triple short torpedo launcher It was equipped. On 1 July 1987, she was changed to a

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, and the ship registration number was changed to TV-3505. Transferred to Training Squadron 1st Training Squadron and transferred to

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. The remodeling work to the training ship was carried out from March 2 to June 11 of the same year, the long torpedo launcher and VDS were removed, and the trainee auditorium was newly established. She was stricken on 25 March 1995.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mogami (DE-212) 1961 ships Ships built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Isuzu-class destroyer escorts