Mitsubishi Heavy Industries held a naming and launching ceremony for a 3,900-ton destroyer for the Ministry of Defense at its Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works (Akunoura-cho, Nagasaki City) on the 2nd. This follows the naming and launching ceremony for the sister ship “Nagara” held in December 2024 in Nagasaki.
The ship is the 11th of the 3,900-ton “Mogami”-class destroyer ordered in fiscal year 2023, and has been named “Tatsuta.” The ship’s name comes from the “Tatsuta River,” a tributary of the Yamato River that flows near Ikoma City, Nara Prefecture. After outfitting work on the hull, engine, electrical equipment, and weapons is completed, the ship is scheduled to be handed over to the Ministry of Defense in fiscal year 2026.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group operates defense equipment business across land, sea and air in an integrated manner, and by leveraging technological synergy, develops, designs and constructs cutting-edge ships with excellent functionality, performance and cost performance, and actively responds to maintenance and capacity improvement after commissioning. Going forward, as a total ship integrator, the company will continue to focus on developing new destroyers that go beyond conventional frameworks, responding to the challenges faced by customers, such as manpower saving and unmanned operation, reduction of life cycle costs and early equipment.