Yamagumo-class destroyer

• Sumitomo Heavy Industries (3)

• Maizuri Heavy Industries (1)

• Mitsui Shipbuilding & Eng. Co (1)

• Uraga Heavy Industries (1)

• (the latter batch)

• (the latter batch)

• Aokumo class (Latter batch)

• 2050 LT standard

• Aokumo and Akigumo

• 2150 LT standard

• Yūgumo

• 2200 LT standard

• 114.0 m overall

• Aokumo class

• 115.2 m overall

• 3.9 m

• Aokumo class

• 4.0 m

• 4 × Mitsui 1228 V3 BU-38V diesels

• 2 × Mitsui 1628 V3 BU-38V diesels

• 2 shafts, 26,000 bhp

• Makigumo and Akigumo

• 6 × Mitsubishi 12 UEV 30/40 diesels

• Aokumo class

• 6 × Mitsubishi 12 UEV 30/40N diesels

• 28 kn

• all others

• 27 kn

• 210

• Aokumo class

• 220

• AN/SQS-23

• Mark 56 fire-control system

• Mark 63 fire-control system

• Aokumo class

• OQS-3 (Type 66 passive sonar)

• VDS AN/SQS-35(J)

• Akigumo and Yūgumo

• NOLR-6

• all others

• NOLR-1B

• 1 × ASROC anti-submarine rocket system

• 1 × 4 Bofors 375 mm ASW rocket launcher

• 2 × HOS-301 triple 324 mm torpedo tubes The Yamagumo class are vessels of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, usually classified as a destroyer, but due to their relatively light displacement, in other sources as a destroyer escort. This class is the successor of the .

This class was planned to become the new generation workhorse of the fleet of the JMSDF. In support of this objective, it was equipped with some new generation weapon and sensor systems such as the ASROC anti-submarine rocket and the OPS-11 early warning radar (Japanese equivalent of the American AN/SPS-40 radar).

The Minegumo-class destroyer derived from this class as the new DASH equipped version, but after the QH-50D DASH was scrapped, the JMSDF decided on resuming the construction of this class. The latter batch sometimes called as the Aokumo class, and there are some improvements, mainly in their electronics such as the OQS-3 hull-sonar (Japanese variant of the American AN/SQS-23) and the AN/SQS-35 variable depth sonar system.