Port of Call, Pt 2

Here are some photographs I took of 2 ships of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force here in Baltimore's Inner Harbour.

Here's a bow on shot of the DDG

Close up of the  Bridge and forcastle

Both vessels...DDG on the right and an FFG (the Japanese class it as a Destroyer Escourt [DE])

DD-125 Sawayuki (it's the equivalent of an FFG)

Otobreda 76 mm guns

quad Harpoon SSM launcher mounted above a

Type 68 triple 324 mm (12.8 in) torpedo tubes

ASROC anti-submarine rocket octuple launcher mounted on the stern of the FFG

Port Of Call, Part 1

Two Vessels of the (formerly Imperial Japanese Navy) Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force are on an official port of call...here are a couple of really bad cell phone photographs.  I'll take some more when I go and do the tour upon the morrow.

FFG (JMSDF defines this as a DE)

Nice Bow Shot

JMSDF Naval Jack