JS Agano
Agano leaving MHI Nagasaki shipyard after commissioning | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Japan | |
| Name | Agano |
| Namesake | Agano River |
| Ordered | 2020 |
| Builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki |
| Laid down | 24 June 2021 |
| Launched | 21 December 2022 |
| Commissioned | 20 June 2024 |
| Home port | Maizuru |
| Identification | Pennant number: FFM-6 |
| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Mogami-class frigate |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 133 m (436 ft 4 in) |
| Beam | 16.3 m (53 ft 6 in) |
| Draft | 9 m (29 ft 6 in) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 × RHIB, UUV, USV |
| Crew | 90-100 |
| Sensors & processing systems | |
| Electronic warfare & decoys | NOLQ-3E (Passive radar system + Electronic attack capability is integrated into the main radar antenna), Chaff dispenser |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × SH-60L helicopter |
Agano (あがの) is a frigate of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the sixth ship of the Mogami class. Her namesake comes from the Agano River, which flows through Fukushima and Niigata Prefectures and into the Sea of Japan.
She is the second ship to be named after the Agano River, after the name ship of the Agano-class cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, but she is the first JMSDF ship to be named so.