The ''Takatsuki'' class destroyer was a vessel of 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) ...
. It was the predecessor of the , and was mainly used for
anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines. Such operations are t ...
duties.
In 1985-1988, ''Takatsuki'' and ''Kikuzuki'' were upgraded with
Sea Sparrow
RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is a U.S. ship-borne short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon system, primarily intended for defense against anti-ship missiles. The system was developed in the early 1960s from the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile as a ...
SAM launchers,
Harpoon missile
The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile
manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security). The AGM-84E Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) and later AGM-84H/K SLAM-ER (Standoff Land Attack ...
anti-ship missile launchers,
Phalanx CIWS
The Phalanx CIWS (often spoken as "sea-wiz") is a gun-based close-in weapon system to defend military watercraft automatically against incoming threats such as aircraft, missiles, and small boats. It was designed and manufactured by the Gene ...
systems (''Kikuzuki'' only), new FCS (FCS-2-12) fire control radar and TASS. ''Mochizuki'' and ''Nagatsuki'' were in the upgrade program, but were eventually not upgraded.
Ships
Books
*''The Maru Special, Ships of the JMSDF No.57 Takatsuki class escort vessels'', Ushio Shobō (Japan), November 1981
*''The Maru Special, Ships of the JMSDF No.78 Electronics weapons, Power Plants and Helicopters'', Ushio Shobō (Japan), August 1983
{{Combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Destroyer classes