JS ''Myōkō'' (DDG-175) is a guided missile

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in the

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force , abbreviated , also simply known as the Japanese Navy, is the maritime warfare branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. The JMSDF was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) ...

(JMSDF). ''Myōkō'' was named after

Mount Myōkō is an active stratovolcano in Honshu, Japan. It is situated at the southwest of Myōkō city, Niigata Prefecture, and a part of Jōshin'etsu-kōgen National Park. Mount Myōkō is listed as one of 100 Famous Japanese Mountains, and together ...

Operational history

She was laid down by

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on 8 April 1993, launched on 5 October 1994; and commissioned on 14 March 1996. In January 2008, it was announced that

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received a US$40.4 million contract modification to provide Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMD) capability to the ''Myōkō'', the third to be so equipped. 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.

Gallery

File:US Navy 050609-N-5384B-003 The Japanese Maritime Self Defense (JDS) ship JDS Myoko (DDG 175), foreground, sails in formation along with the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67).jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' and USS Shiloh on 9 June 2005 File:JS Myōkō in the Pacific, -17 Mar. 2007 a.jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' underway on 18 March 2007 File:JS Myōkō at Pearl Harbor, -27 Jun. 2012 a.jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' at

Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the Naval fleet of the United States, before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the Re ...

on 27 June 2012 File:JS Myōkō departs Pearl Harbor, -10 Jul. 2012 a.jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' at Pearl Harbor on 10 July 2012 File:JS Myōkō(DDG-175).jpg, JS ''Myōkō'' underway 4 May 2021

References

External links

GlobalSecurity.org; JMSDF DDG ''Kongo'' Class
Kongō-class destroyers 1994 ships Myōkō {{Japan-mil-ship-stub