Engineering:JS Shōryū (SS-510)

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JS Shōryū
History
Japan
Name:
  • Shōryū
  • (しょうりゅう)
Namesake: Shōryū
Ordered: 2014
Builder: Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Cost: ¥64.3 billion
Laid down: 28 January 2015
Launched: 6 November 2017
Commissioned: 18 March 2019
Homeport: Kure
Identification: SS-510
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Sōryū-class attack submarine
Displacement:
  • Surfaced: 2,900 tonnes (2,854 long tons)
  • Submerged: 4,200 t (4,134 long tons)
Length: 84.0 m (275 ftin)
Beam: 9.1 m (29 ft 10 in)
Draught: 8.5 m (27 ft 11 in)
Propulsion:
  • 1-shaft 2× Kawasaki 12V 25/25 SB-type diesel engines diesel-electric
  • 4× Kawasaki Kockums V4-275R Stirling engines
  • 3,900 hp (2,900 kW) surfaced
  • 8,000 hp (6,000 kW) submerged
Speed:
  • Surfaced: 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
  • Submerged: 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)[1]
Range: AIP endurance (est.): 6100 nautical miles (11297.2 km; 7060.75 miles) at 6.5 knots (12 km/h; 7.48 mp/h)[1]
Complement: 65 (9 officers, 56 enlisted)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • ZPS-6F surface/low-level air search radar
  • Hughes/Oki ZQQ-7 Sonar suite: 1× bow-array, 4× LF flank arrays and 1× Towed array sonar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • ZLR-3-6 ESM equipment
  • 2× 3-inch underwater countermeasure launcher tubes for launching of Acoustic Device Countermeasures (ADCs)
Armament:

JS Shōryū (SS-510) is the tenth boat of Sōryū-class submarines. She was commissioned on 18 March 2019.[2]

Construction and career

Shōryū was laid down at Kawasaki Heavy Industries Kobe Shipyard on January 28, 2015 as the 2014 plan 2900-ton submarine No. 8125 based on the medium-term defense capability development plan. At the launching ceremony, it was named Shōryū and launched on 6 November 2017. She's commissioned on 18 March 2019 and deployed to Kure.

Shōryū homeport is Kure.[3]

On October 9, 2020, anti-submarine warfare training was conducted with the escort vessels JS Kaga and JS Ikazuchi which were participating in the Reiwa 2nd Indo-Pacific dispatch training in the South China Sea.[4]

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