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Guided-missile destroyer
Kongō-class destroyer is a guided-missile destroyer. It was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (3) Ishikawajima-Harima HI (1).
Kongō-class destroyer
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (3) Ishikawajima-Harima HI (1)
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Hatakaze class
Atago class
1990 - 1998
1993 -
4
4
Guided-missile destroyer
7,250 tons standard 9,500 tons full load
161 m (528 ft)
21 m (69 ft)
6.2 m (20 ft)
4 Ishikawajima Harima / General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines ; two shafts, 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
300
AN/SPY-1D PESA radar OPS-28C or D surface-search radar OPS-20 navigation radar 3 × AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar OQS-102 bow-mounted sonar OQR-2 towed array sonar
NOLQ-2 ECM intercept and jammer 4 × Mark 36 SRBOC Chaff and Decoy Launching System Type 4 towed anti-torpedo decoy
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 Tomahawk cruise missile
1 × SH-60J/K helicopter
Helicopter deck only
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True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | 161 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
Kongō-class destroyer equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Reported count for Kongō -class. Service scope: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): in service: 4. Origin: unstated. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.