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JS HYUGA ひゅうが

photographed January 30, 2025 around 17:00 by Ship Freakazoid while JMSDF military vessel ship spotting in the Kanmon Straits of Japan. The helicopter carrier made an eerie metallic sound as it passed between Garden Paradise Kitakyushu and So-So Shimonoseki City on a hazy, frigid and windy winter afternoon.  

JS HYUGA ・ ひゅうが sailing the Kanmon Straits of Japan
JS HYUGA ・ ひゅうが sailing the Kanmon Straits of Japan

This Japan Maritime Self Defense Force ASW vessel's paintjob and construction gives it a unique look and makes it look very different from different angles and under differing lighting conditions. Interesting... And, certainly well planned out by what some call the Japanese Navy. 

DDH-181 HYUGA a JMSDF anti-submarine warfare helicopter carrier
DDH-181 HYUGA a JMSDF anti-submarine warfare helicopter carrier

関門海峡を通る (HYUGA) ひゅうが型護衛艦
関門海峡を通る (HYUGA) ひゅうが型護衛艦

Ship Freakazoid captured the ASW (anti-submarine warfare) carrier HYUGA (DDH-181) as it sailed thru Kanmon Straits of Japan on January 30, 2025 at around
17:00. It's passage was announced in advance and posted on a Japan Coast Guard website. The old (very old) and faithful antique JVC Everio video camera with 54x Konica Minolta lens mounted on a secondhand Slik tripod was used to record video of this Japan Maritime Self Defense Force helicopter carrier. For photographs an old Olympus E-520 DSLR with 150mm Zuiko lens was used.

Here are some details on the ship: Vessel Name: JS HYUGA ひゅうが Type: Military Ops (ASW carrier / Helicopter Carrier - Hyuga Class ひゅうが型護衛艦) Displacement: 13,950 tons standard; 19,000 tons full load Length: 197 m (646 ft) Width: 33 m (108 ft) Draft: 7 m (23 ft) Namesake: Hyūga Province Ordered: 2004 Builder: IHI, Yokohama Laid down: 11 May 2006 Launched: 23 August 2007 Commissioned: 18 March 2009 Homeport: Maizuru IDENTIFICATION MMSI number: 431999693 Callsign: JSNI Pennant number: DDH-181 PROPULSION COGAG, 4 Ishikawajima Harima/General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines Two shafts 5-bladed CP props 100,000 shaft horsepower (75 MW) Speed Over 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) SENSORS & PROCESSING SYSTEMS ATECS (advanced technology command system) OYQ-10 advanced combat direction system FCS-3 AAW system OQQ-21 ASW system NOLQ-3C EW system OPS-20C surface search radar ARMAMENT 16 cells Mk 41 VLS 16 ESSM 12 RUM-139 VL ASROC 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × triple 324 mm torpedo tubes 12.7mm MG AIRCRAFT CARRIED 3 × SH-60K, 1 × MCH-101 18 aircraft maximum AVIATION FACILITIES Flight deck and enclosed hangar

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