Description
Class overview
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Name: Amaterasu-class
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Builders:
Kure Naval Arsenal
Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
Okinawa Naval Arsenal
Mitsubishi Shipyard
Umenomori Shipyard
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Operators: Imperial Japanese Navy
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Cost: ¥125 billion & ¥2 billion R&D (estimated)
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Built: 2012–2090
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In commission: 2018-Active
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Planned: 16
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Completed: 6
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Cancelled: 10
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General characteristics as per final plan (A-260 battleship)
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Type: Nuclear power Guided Missile battleship
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Displacement:
26,500 tons standard
32,000 tons full load
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Length: 225 m
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Beam: 35 m
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Draught: 12 m
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Installed power: One A1B nuclear reactors
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Propulsion:Four shafts
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Speed: 32 knots
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Range: Unlimited
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Endurance: 20-25-year service life
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Complement: 900
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Sensors and processing systems:
ATECS (advanced technology command system) Sensors and processing systems
OYQ-11 ACDS
FCS-3A AAW system
NOLQ-2C intercep
- 4 x FCS-3ER (Extreme-range air search radar)
AN/SPQ-9B surface search radar
-3 × AN/SPG-62 illuminators
AN/SQQ-89 with SQS-53C
Mk. 46 Optronic directo
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Electronic warfare & decoys:
NOLQ-2C intercep
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Armament:
2 x Umenimori 510 mm/55 Type-22 Advanced Stage Gun System (ASGS) (1×2)
3 x Umenimori 10 cm/65 Type-10 Kai Naval gun Twin gun (6x2)
1 x Umenimori 20.3 cm/65 Type-16 Advanced Gun System (AGS) (1×2)
2 x Oto Melara 76/62 Super Rapid
2 x MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS)
2 x RIM-116 Sea Rolling Airframe Missile (SeaRAM) CIWS
2 x 6 Cell Type-14 Atni-Ship Missile Peripheral Vertical Launching System (PVLS) (12 x Type-98 Kai Atni-Carrier missile)
2 x 64 Cell Mk-41 Vertical Launching System (VLS)
4 × Type 68 triple torpedo tubes (12 × Mk-46 or Type 97 / Type 12 torpedoes )
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Armor: Ablative armor
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Aircraft carried carried:
6-8 aircraft maximum:
SH-60J Seahawk