Shipbucket

Post war most countries had the ability to apply a "gyro angle" to the torpedo ie the tubes where trained to 90 degrees P or S then a series of preset gyro angles applied to weapons to make the go in the desired direction and apply a spread

Graham

I'm not saying it's wrong, I just thought it was an odd design choice.

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

During the 1960's the Akizuki and her sister Teruzuki lost the Mk.108 Weapon Alpha ASW and it was replaced with a quadruple ASW rocket-launcher from Bofors. This system was widely used by France, Sweden, the Netherlands and other countries.
The ships also had Mk.32 ASW torpedo tubes and a VDS was installed. It was SQA-10 using the SQS-35 body and was known in Japanese service as OQA-1A (Akizuki and Teruzuki OQA-1B)
And here is Teruzuki after her MLU

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Novice
Great work I love it
Graham

Very nice work Novice, I've always had an interest in these early destroyers, the way they seemed to mix the design ethics of the 1930s and 1950s to produce something of a hybrid with the pre-war sweeping deckline and the American equipment. Very fine work on the hull script.

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Putting aside those hideous pagoda structures on the rebuilt wartime cruisers and battleships, I've long admired the look of Japanese warships; and postwar they managed to combine a distinctive national appearance while incoporating U.S. equipment. So lets see more of these ships - well done

The railing around the ASW mortar could use a rework. Otherwise, another fine drawing.

The Murasame class of three ships, was an interim design between the Harukaze class and Akizuki class, having the Mk.16 5"/54 guns with 3"/50 guns of the Akizuki class and Mk.15 Hedgehog ASW launcher and depth-charges of the Harukaze class



Later the DD 109 Harusame had VDS and Mk.32 ASW torpedo-tubes added

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DD109 Harusame



This ship was slightly different, as she had a VDS (OQA-1) and was fitted with Mk.32 torpedo-tubes in 1975 (Mk.68 torpedo tubes in the JMSDF)

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The first guided missile ship of the JMSDF was built in 1962 and completed in 1965, the DDG 163 Amatsukaze



Later she was modified and updated, had ASROC and Type 68 torpedo tubes added in 1967, and in the late 1970's had GFCS Mk.2 replacing the MK.63 GFCS for the 3"/50 guns.

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