JS ''Suzutsuki'' (DD-117) is the third ship of Akizuki-class destroyers, operated by the

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. She was commissioned on 12 March 2014.

Construction and career

''Suzutsuki'' was

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on May 18, 2011 at

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Shipyard & Machinery Works as the 2009 plan 5,000-ton type escort ship No. 2246 based on the medium-term defense capability development plan, and launched on October 17, 2012. Commissioned on March 12, 2014, was incorporated into the 8th Escort Corps of the 4th Escort Corps and deployed to

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. On July 10, 2016, as the 25th dispatched

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action surface corps, sailed from

base to the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia with the escort ship JS Inazuma and returned to Japan on January 12, 2016. From October 13 to November 25, 2017, she was dispatched to the waters around

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and participated in the US dispatch training. From August 26 to October 30, 2018, participated in the Indo-Pacific dispatch training with the escort vessels

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and JS Inazuma, and visited

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, Sri Lanka and

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. On September 13, she joined the submarine JS Kuroshio in the

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and conducted anti-submarine warfare training. On April 21, 2019, she entered Qingdao to participate in the International Fleet Review Ceremony to be held on April 23 near Qingdao, Shandong Province, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the

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. It had been about seven and a half years since the last JMSDF ship visited China in December 2011. From August 15 to 17, 2020, Japan-US joint training was conducted with the

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destroyer USS Mustin in the East China Sea.https://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/release/202008/20200818.pdf

Gallery

File:DD-116 Teruzuki Right.png, JS ''Teruzuki'' underway, date unknown. File:DD-116 Teruzuki Left.png, JS ''Teruzuki'' underway, date unknown. File:Teruzuki (DD-116), Sawayuki (DD-125) en Asuka (ASE-6102) aan de Yoshikura Pier, -2 Jun. 2013 b.jpg, JS ''Teruzuki'',

JS Sawayuki JS ''Sawayuki'' (DD-125) is a of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). The ship was built by IHI Maritime in Tokyo and commissioned into service on 15 Feb 1984. Service This ship was one of several in the JMSDF fleet participating ...

JS Asuka JS ''Asuka'' (ASE-6102) is an experimental ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. The vessel was constructed by Sumitomo Heavy Industries of Tokyo, Japan and was launched on 21 June 1994. ''Asuka'' was commissioned on 22 March 1995 and ...

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on 2 June 2013.

References

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