JS Myōkō

For other ships with the same name, see Japanese ship Myōkō.

JS Myōkō (DDG-175) is a Kongō-class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Myōkō was named after Mount Myōkō.

JS Myōkō in Maizuru on 7 September 2009
History
Japan
Name	Myōkō (みょうこう)
Namesake	Mount Myōkō
Ordered	1991
Builder	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Laid down	8 April 1993
Launched	5 October 1994
Commissioned	14 March 1996
Homeport	Maizuru
Identification	Pennant number: DDG-175
Status	Active
General characteristics
Class and type	Kongō-class destroyer
Displacement	7500 tons standard 9500 tons full load
Length	528.2 ft (161.0 m)
Beam	68.9 ft (21.0 m)
Draft	20.3 ft (6.2 m)
Propulsion	4 Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; two shafts, 100,000 shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range	4,500 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,334 km at 37 km/h)
Complement	300
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPY-1D OPS-28 surface search radar OQS-102 bow mounted sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	NOLQ-2 intercept / jammer
Armament	1 × 127 mm (5 in)/54 Caliber Oto Melara Compact Gun 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon Anti-ship Missile in quad canisters 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × HOS-302 triple torpedo tubes: Mark 46 torpedo Type 73 torpedoes 90-cell Mk. 41 Vertical Launching System: SM-2MR Surface-to-air missile SM-3 Anti-ballistic missile RUM-139 Anti-Submarine Rocket RIM-162 Surface-to-air missile
Aircraft carried	1 × SH-60K helicopter

Operational history

She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on 8 April 1993, launched on 5 October 1994; and commissioned on 14 March 1996.

In January 2008, it was announced that Lockheed Martin received a US$40.4 million contract modification to provide Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMD) capability to the Myōkō, the third Kongō-class destroyer to be so equipped.^[1]

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 Maizuru.^[2]

In popular culture

• The ship is featured in the 2012 film Battleship, 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

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  JS Myōkō and USS Shiloh on 9 June 2005
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  JS Myōkō underway on 18 March 2007
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  JS Myōkō at Pearl Harbor on 27 June 2012
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  JS Myōkō at Pearl Harbor on 10 July 2012
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  JS Myōkō underway 4 May 2021