JS Kaga

JS Kaga (DDH-184) is a helicopter carrier of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Officially classified as a multi-purpose operation destroyer, she is the second ship in the Izumo class, the other being JS Izumo. Her namesake arises from Kaga Province (加賀国, Kaga no kuni) in present-day Ishikawa Prefecture.

This article is about the JMSDF ship. For the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier of the same name, see Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga.
JS Kaga (DDH-184) in August 2015
History
Japan
Name
  • Kaga
  • (加賀)
NamesakeKaga Province
Ordered2010
Laid down7 October 2013
Launched27 August 2015
Commissioned22 March 2017
Identification
Badge
General characteristics
Class and typeIzumo-class aircraft carrier
Displacement
  • 19,500 long tons (19,800 t) empty;
  • 27,000 long tons (27,000 t) full load
Length248 m (814 ft)
Beam38 m (125 ft)
Draft7.5 m (25 ft)
Propulsion
Speedmore than 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Sensors and
processing systems
  • OYQ-12 combat direction system
  • FCS-3 fire control system
  • OPS-50 AESA radar
  • OPS-28 surface-search radar
  • OQQ-23 bow sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • NOLQ-3D-1 EW suite
  • Mark 36 SRBOC
  • Anti-torpedo mobile decoy (MOD)
  • Floating acoustic jammer (FAJ)
Armament
  • 2 × Phalanx CIWS
  • 2 × SeaRAM CIWS
Aircraft carried
  • 7 ASW helicopters and 2 SAR helicopters
  • 28 aircraft maximum

The ship bears the same name as the World War II-era Kaga, the Tosa-class battleship turned aircraft carrier that was produced in 1928 and participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. She is also slightly longer than her World War II predecessor. Kaga and Izumo are the first aircraft carriers built by Japan since the end of World War II. Kaga was built as part of a wider Japanese military buildup, triggered by heightened Sino-Japanese tensions regarding the contested ownership of the Senkaku Islands.

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