Super Shimakaze-class destroyer
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Super Shimakaze class |
| Operators | Imperial Japanese Navy |
| Preceded by | Shimakaze |
| Succeeded by | Super Akizuki |
| Planned | 19 (1942) |
| Cancelled | 19 (1942) |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 413 ft 5 in (126.01 m) (overall) |
| Beam | 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft 7 in (4.14 m) |
| Depth | 23 ft 4 in (7.11 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 39.0 kn (72.2 km/h) |
| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h) |
| Armament |
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The Super Shimakaze-class destroyers (超島風型駆逐艦, Chō-Shimakaze gata kuchiku-kan) were a projected class of destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), developed during the Second World War. The intention was to develop a mass-production destroyer based on the experimental destroyer Shimakaze. The IJN Fleet Command gave them the project number V6. However, the project was cancelled with none of the proposed ships being completed, because the IJN was heavily crippled at Midway in June 1942.
They were a lengthened version of the Yūgumo-class destroyer. These destroyers carried the most torpedo tubes out of any destroyer in the war, but no torpedo reloads were carried. Such a payload of torpedoes could have sunk a heavily armoured battleship in one go. A potent destroyer, they came too late in the war to do anything that could have changed the situation.