Japanese patrol vessel Mizuho (PLH-41)
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.jpg) Mizuho at Port of Naha
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| History | |
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| Name | Mizuho |
| Ordered | 2015 |
| Builder | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shimonoseki Shipyard |
| Launched | November 9, 2018 |
| Commissioned | August 22, 2019 |
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| Status | Active |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 6,000 GT |
| Length | 134.0 m (439 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 15.8 m (51 ft 10 in) |
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| Speed | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
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| Aircraft carried | 2 × Sikorsky S-76D |
The Japanese patrol boat Mizuho is a PLH type patrol vessels of the Japan Coast Guard. She was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shimonoseki Shipyard.
She is first JCG ship equipped with Bofors 40 Mk4 40 mm cannon that is the ship's main gun, the ship also carry a JM61-RFS CIWS on the secondary gun position on the bow, the Remote Firing System (RFS) by a JM61 20 mm Vulcan and one remote naval mount make up.
References
Further reading
- "ヘリ搭載巡視船「みずほ」：下関で引き渡し式 来月、名古屋海保に配属" (in Japanese). Mainichi shinbun. 23 August 2019.
External links
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- 海上保安廳大型直昇機巡視船 (in Chinese)
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