JS ''Myōkō'' (DDG-175) is a guided missile

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in the

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(JMSDF). ''Myōkō'' was named after

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Operational history

She was laid down by

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on 8 April 1993, launched on 5 October 1994; and commissioned on 14 March 1996. In January 2008, it was announced that

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received a US$40.4 million contract modification to provide

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(BMD) capability to the ''Myōkō'', the third to be so equipped. On 2 December 2019, Captain Miho Otani became the first woman to take the command of an MSDF Aegis destroyer with the JS ''Myōkō''. The ceremony took place in the port city of

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In popular culture

* The ship is featured in the 2012 film ''

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'', where she and the USS ''Sampson'' are destroyed and sunk in the first battle against a trio of alien ships in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii.

Gallery

File:US Navy 050609-N-5384B-003 The Japanese Maritime Self Defense (JDS) ship JDS Myoko (DDG 175), foreground, sails in formation along with the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67).jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' and USS Shiloh on 9 June 2005 File:JS Myōkō in the Pacific, -17 Mar. 2007 a.jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' underway on 18 March 2007 File:JS Myōkō at Pearl Harbor, -27 Jun. 2012 a.jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' at

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on 27 June 2012 File:JS Myōkō departs Pearl Harbor, -10 Jul. 2012 a.jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' at Pearl Harbor on 10 July 2012 File:JS Myōkō(DDG-175).jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' underway 4 May 2021

References

External links

GlobalSecurity.org; JMSDF DDG ''Kongo'' Class
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