Towada-class replenishment ship

The Towada class is a series of replenishment oilers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. Three ships of the class were built between 1985 and 1989. The ships have the hull designator AOE.[1]

The US Navy destroyer USS McCampbell, right, conducts a replenishment at sea with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force fast-combat support ship JDS Hamana in 2012
Class overview
Builders:

Hitachi Shipbuilding Corporation, Maizuru

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Tokyo
Operators:  Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Preceded by: Sagami class
Succeeded by: Mashu class
Planned: 3
Completed: 3
Active: 3
General characteristics
Type: Fast combat support ship
Displacement: 8,100 tonnes standard
Length: 167 m (548 ft)
Beam: 22.0 m (72.2 ft)
Draught: 15.9 m (52 ft)
Propulsion:
  • 2 × Mitsui 16V42M-A diesel engines
  • 26,000 shp (19,388 kW) each
  • 2 × shafts
Speed: 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Range: 10,500 nmi (19,446 km; 12,083 mi) at 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Complement: 140
Aviation facilities: Helicopter deck only, may carry helicopters up to the size of MH-53E

The Towada class was designed as an enlarged, improved version of the Sagami-class fast combat support ships. The vessels are capable of mounting the Phalanx CIWS by design, although this is not a common occurrence.[2]

List of ships
Name Number Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Homeport Status
Towada (とわだ) AOE-422 17 April 1985 25 March 1986 24 March 1987 Kure Active
Tokiwa (ときわ) AOE-423 12 May 1988 23 March 1989 12 March 1990 Yokosuka Active
Hamana (はまな) AOE-424 8 July 1988 18 May 1989 29 March 1990 Sasebo Active
gollark: The names don't actually correspond to any actual size of the transistors. So they can keep "shrinking" as long as some useful metric can be increased.
gollark: I don't think I have any configuration like /etc/network/interfaces would have been either.
gollark: My networking on here is done by NetworkManager, though I use dhcpcd or something on my servers.
gollark: This is on Arch. There is absolutely no chance that no other ones don't have it either.
gollark: ```osmarks@fenrir ~> ls /etc/network/interfacesls: cannot access '/etc/network/interfaces': No such file or directory```

References
  1. Wertheim, Eric (2013). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, 16th Edition. Naval Institute Press. p. 377. ISBN 978-1591149545.
  2. "AOE Towada Class". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.