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Japan Maritime Self Defense Force / JMSDF - Guided Missile Destroyer
DDG-175 JS Myoko
 
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Type, class: Guided Missile Destroyer, DDG; Kongo class
Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Japan
 
STATUS:
Laid down: April 8, 1993
Launched: October 5, 1994
Commissioned: March 14, 1996
IN SERVICE
  
Homeport: Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan
Namesake: みょうこう / Mount Myōkō
Technical Data: see INFO > Kongo class Guided Missile Destroyer
 
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Standard Missile launch

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Oto-Melara 127/54 gun

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a Standard Missile was launched from the forward Mk-41 Vertical Launching System (VLS)

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a Standard Missile was launched from the forward Mk-41 Vertical Launching System (VLS)
   
 
JS Myoko (DDG-175):
 
In January 2008, it was announced that Lockheed Martin received a US$40.4 million contract modification to provide Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMD) capability to the Myōkō, the third Kongō-class destroyer 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.
 
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.
 
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