Oyashio class submarine

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SS590 Oyashio, navigates through Pearl Harbor.

The Oyashio is a class of Japanese diesel-electric submarine operated by the JMSDF. The submarines entered service in the late 1990s. The submarines are larger than the earlier Harushio class submarines, to make room for a flank sonar array.

[edit] Specifications

Displacement:
- 2,750 tons surfaced
- 3,000 tons submerged
Dimensions:
- Length: 81.7 m
- Beam: 8.9 m
- Draft: 7.4 m
Maximum speed
- 12 knots surfaced
- 20 knots submerged
Propulsion: 1 shaft diesel electric
Armament
- Torpedoes: 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. Carries a total of 20 of : Type 89 or Type 80 ASW torpedoes, or Sub-Harpoon missiles.
Sonar: Hughes/Oki ZQQ 5B/6 hull mounted sonar, flank arrays, ZQR 1 towed array.
Radar: JRC ZPS 6 I-band search radar.
Complement: 70 (10 officers).

[edit] Boats

Two Oyashio-class submarines docked at Yokosuka Naval Base.

Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
Oyashio (SS-590)	26 January 1994	15 October 1996	16 March 1998
Michishio (SS-591)	16 February 1995	18 September 1997	10 March 1999
Uzushio (SS-592)	6 March 1996	26 November 1998	9 March 2000
Makishio (SS-593)	26 March 1997	22 September 1999	29 March 2001
Isoshio (SS-594)	9 March 1998	27 November 2000	14 March 2002
Narushio (SS-595)	2 April 1999	4 October 2001	3 March 2003
Kuroshio (SS-596)	27 March 2000	23 October 2002	8 March 2004
Takashio (SS-597)	30 January 2001	1 October 2003	9 March 2005
Yaeshio (SS-598)	15 January 2002	4 November 2004	9 March 2006
Setoshio (SS-599)	23 January 2003	5 October 2005	28 February 2007
Mochishio (SS-600)	23 February 2004	6 November 2006	March 2008

Current and future combatant ship classes of the JMSDF

DDH : Destroyer Helicopter	13500t class \| Shirane class \| Haruna class
DDG : Guided Missile Destroyer	Atago class \| Kongō class \| Hatakaze class \| Tachikaze class
DD : Destroyer	5000t class \| Takanami class \| Murasame class \| Asagiri class \| Hatsuyuki class
DE : Destroyer Escort	Abukuma class \| Yubari class \| Ishikari
SS : Submarine	2900t class \| Oyashio class \| Harushio class
See also	List of combatant ship classes of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force