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Shūgo-Class Escort Frigate
The Shūgo class is a class of guided-missile frigates as part of the Shiraishōwan Navy "Guided Missile Navy", the warships were designed in the mid-1980s as general-purpose escort vessels inexpensive enough to be bought in large numbers to replace Ryuna Crisis-era destroyers and complement 1960s-era frigates. The class is intended to protect amphibious landing forces, merchant convoys from aircraft and submarine threat, supply and replenishment groups, battleship-centred surface outer-layer screening action groups, aircraft carrier battle groups/strike groups screening ship and patrolling blue-water coasts.
FNS Shūgo, Taigō and Inagō in 1997
Name: Teiyō-Class Frigate
Builders: Chizu-Miyozaki Steel and Co Shipyard, Chihara
Operator: Fujiwara National Naval Corps
In service: 1987-Present
Planned: 90
Completed: 40
Active: 4
Decommissioned: 10
Retired: 26
Displacement: 4,100 tons
Length: 138 m (453 ft)
Beam: 14 m (45 ft)
Draft: 6.7 m (22 ft)
Installed power: 41,000 shp (31 MW)
Propulsion: 4 × gas turbines engines, single shaft driving variable pitch propeller
2 × Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (260 kW) retractable electric thrusters for maneuvering and docking.
Speed: Over 29 knots (54 km/h)
Range: 8,300 km (4,500 nmi; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 176 crews
Armament:
1 × 5 inch (127mm/C54) "Type 19" Mark 20 Mod 2 lightweight gun
2 x Type-11 Hinotori CIWS Block 1B
1 x single-arm Guided Missile Launcher System with a 40-missile magazine that contains Type-66 Standard MR Surface-to-Air missile anti-aircraft guided missiles and Irys anti-ship missiles
1 x Type-137 "Raiden" 25 mm (0.98 in) autocannon
2 x triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 2 x ASW helicopters
Aviation facilities: Helipad
2 x Enclosed hangar
The retired vessels were either mothballed or transferred to other navies for continued service.
