JS Kaga
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JS Kaga (DDH-184) is a helicopter carrier of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).[1] Officially classified as a multi-purpose operation destroyer, she is the second ship in the Izumo class, the other being JS Izumo.[2][3][4] Her namesake arises from Kaga Province (加賀国, Kaga no kuni) in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture.
JS Kaga (DDH-184) in 2017 | |
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Namesake | Kaga Province |
Ordered | 2010 |
Laid down | 7 October 2013 |
Launched | 27 August 2015 |
Commissioned | 22 March 2017 |
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Class and type | Izumo-class aircraft carrier |
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Length | 248 m (814 ft) |
Beam | 38 m (125 ft) |
Draft | 7.5 m (25 ft) |
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Speed | more than 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
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The ship bears the same name as the World War II-era Kaga, the Tosa-class battleship turned aircraft carrier that was produced in 1928 and participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. She is also slightly longer than her World War II predecessor. Kaga and Izumo are the first aircraft carriers built by Japan since the end of World War II. Kaga was built as part of a wider Japanese military buildup, triggered by heightened Sino-Japanese tensions regarding the contested ownership of the Senkaku Islands.
The JS Kaga is currently being upgraded into a fixed-wing carrier, capable of operate VTOL aircraft such as the F-35B.