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-|History= That there were 19 rather than the oft-quoted 18 units in this class, with AKIGUMO representing the nineteenth, will come as a surprise to many. AKIGUMO has always been placed firmly in the following YUGUMO class, and only the most recent publications out of Japan are beginning to buck that trend. This is due primarily to the research and writings of Japanese naval historian Tamura Toshio, who would go further in stating that this has really been more or less common knowledge for many years now.<br />
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-Those who drafted the Imperial Navy's 1937 and 1939 building programs blurred the dividing lines between them (and between the KAGERO and YUGUMO classes as a result) by adding in five fictitious destroyers, this to help conceal the resource allocations being devoted to the huge battleships of the YAMATO class. The first 15 units of the KAGERO (陽炎) class (hull numbers 17-31) were authorized under the 1937 Program — as were the fictitious numbers 32-34. The last four, designated the ARASHI group (hull numbers 112-115), followed in the 1939 Program -- along with the first 11 YUGUMOs, SHIMAKAZE, and a couple more counterfeits. Postwar officials, primarily unqualified army and government clerks rather than navy men (though the latter did include the formidable Fukui Shizuo), tried to unscramble and make sense of these plans and the various documents that supported them. In so doing, and probably further mislead simply by her name, they placed No. 115 AKIGUMO on "the wrong side of the ledger," with No. 116 YUGUMO and her sisters.
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-The KAGEROs benefitted greatly from the many teething troubles of the previous ASASHIO class, and as a result experienced almost none of their own. Virtually identical in appearance to their predecessors, they also mounted the same armament of six 5" guns in Type C turrets, and eight 24" torpedo tubes. Although the KAGEROs were some 72 tons heavier and sported a slightly thicker bridge structure, their stability was improved by lowering the fore quadruple torpedo tube mount and moving its reloads forward abaft the bridge. One unit, the AMATSUKAZE, was fitted with experimental high-pressure boilers, but her performance was not markedly superior to that of her sisters.
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-Upon completion the KAGEROs were the equal of any of their contemporaries in other navies and superior to most. Only the initial lack of radar and continued poor quality of sonar equipment -- shortcomings which bedeviled all Japanese destroyers -- hindered their performance. These were never completely made good, but early deficiencies in antisubmarine and antiaircraft weaponry soon were. As in many other classes, depth charge stowage was increased to 36 and four throwers were added. Light AA armament also grew steadily, and eventually numbered twenty-eight 25 mm. machine guns following removal of the "X" gun turret from all surviving ships of the class, in late1943-early 1944, in favor of two triple 25mm. mounts. (Those so altered included AKIGUMO — but none of the YUGUMO class!)
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-Around the end of 1942 HAMAKAZE became the first destroyer in the Japanese Navy to be fitted with radar, shipping a Type 22 set. Her sisters were then likewise equipped as they rotated homeward from the front for refitting.
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-At the beginning of the Pacific War the KAGEROs formed the backbone of the Empire's first-line destroyer strength, comprising the 4th, 15th, 16th, 17th and half of the 18th Destroyer Divisions. ("Orphan" AKIGUMO, to even-up numbers -- and further confuse matters! -- was later assigned to the YUGUMO-equipped Desdiv 10.)
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-The greatest of all the KAGEROs was unquestionably the YUKIKAZE. That fine ship not only survived the war, but did it the hard way, taking part in countless surface, air-sea and antisubmarine actions in the war's toughest theaters, yet always emerging with little or no damage. Equally robust, if less fortunate, were AKIGUMO, NOWAKI and the entire 17th Destroyer Division.
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-Japan's Southeast Area of the Pacific was hardest on them, six of the class being lost in the Solomons and two off Eastern New Guinea. Most of those that came through this rugged campaign survived into the last year of the war, but only YUKIKAZE was still afloat at its end. Altogether, six were sunk by air attack, five by submarines, five by surface forces and one by mine, with another two succumbing to a combination of mines and aircraft.
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-== General Characteristics: ==
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-Type: 	Destroyer<br />Displacement: 	2,000 long tons (2,032 t) standard 2,500 long tons (2,540 t) battle condition<br />Length: 	118.50 m (388 ft 9 in) full, 116.20 m (381 ft 3 in) waterline<br />Beam: 	10.80 m (35 ft 5 in)<br />Draught: 	3.76 m (12 ft 4 in)<br />Propulsion: 	3 × Kampon water tube boilers, 2 × Kanpon impulse turbines, 2 × shafts, 52,000 shp<br />Speed: 	35.5 knots (40.9 mph; 65.7 km/h)<br />Complement: 	239 (Kagerō, 1939)
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-Armament: 	(Kagerō, 1939)
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-* 6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2)
-* 4 × 25 mm Type 96 AA guns
-* 8 × Type 92 torpedo tubes (2×4) 16 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedoes
-* 18 × Type 95 depth charges
-* 2 × paravanes
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-(Kagerō, 1943)
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-* 6 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (3×2)
-* 8 × 25 mm Type 96 AA guns
-* 8 × Type 92 torpedo tubes (2×4) 16 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedoes
-* 18 × Type 95 depth charges
-* 2 × paravanes
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-(Yukikaze, July 1944)
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-* 4 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (2×2)
-* 24 × 25 mm Type 96 AA guns
-* 4 × 13 mm Type 95 AA guns
-* 8 × Type 92 torpedo tubes (2×4) 16 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedoes
-* 36 × Type 2 or Type 3 depth charges
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-(Yukikaze, April 1945)
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-* 4 × Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns (2×2)
-* 27 × 25 mm Type 96 AA guns
-* 4 × 13 mm Type 95 AA guns
-* 8 × Type 92 torpedo tubes (2×4) 16 × 610 mm Type 93 torpedoes
-* 36 × Type 2 or Type 3 depth charges
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-|Ref_references=
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-|Ref_sources=Long Lancers, Wikipedia
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-|Ref_links=[https://www.combinedfleet.com/kagero_n.htm Long Lancers - Kagero Class Destroyer], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kager%C5%8D-class_destroyer Kagero Class Destroyer]
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?	Those who drafted the Imperial Navy's 1937 and 1939 building programs blurred the dividing lines between them (and between the KAGERO and YUGUMO classes as a result) by adding in five fictitious destroyers, this to help conceal the resource allocations being devoted to the huge battleships of the YAMATO class. The first 15 units of the KAGERO class (hull numbers 17-31) were authorized under the 1937 Program — as were the fictitious numbers 32-34. The last four, designated the ARASHI group (hull numbers 112-115), followed in the 1939 Program -- along with the first 11 YUGUMOs, SHIMAKAZE, and a couple more counterfeits. Postwar officials, primarily unqualified army and government clerks rather than navy men (though the latter did include the formidable Fukui Shizuo), tried to unscramble and make sense of these plans and the various documents that supported them. In so doing, and probably further mislead simply by her name, they placed No. 115 AKIGUMO on "the wrong side of the ledger," with No. 116 YUGUMO and her sisters.	+	Those who drafted the Imperial Navy's 1937 and 1939 building programs blurred the dividing lines between them (and between the KAGERO and YUGUMO classes as a result) by adding in five fictitious destroyers, this to help conceal the resource allocations being devoted to the huge battleships of the YAMATO class. The first 15 units of the KAGERO (陽炎) class (hull numbers 17-31) were authorized under the 1937 Program — as were the fictitious numbers 32-34. The last four, designated the ARASHI group (hull numbers 112-115), followed in the 1939 Program -- along with the first 11 YUGUMOs, SHIMAKAZE, and a couple more counterfeits. Postwar officials, primarily unqualified army and government clerks rather than navy men (though the latter did include the formidable Fukui Shizuo), tried to unscramble and make sense of these plans and the various documents that supported them. In so doing, and probably further mislead simply by her name, they placed No. 115 AKIGUMO on "the wrong side of the ledger," with No. 116 YUGUMO and her sisters.

	The KAGEROs benefitted greatly from the many teething troubles of the previous ASASHIO class, and as a result experienced almost none of their own. Virtually identical in appearance to their predecessors, they also mounted the same armament of six 5" guns in Type C turrets, and eight 24" torpedo tubes. Although the KAGEROs were some 72 tons heavier and sported a slightly thicker bridge structure, their stability was improved by lowering the fore quadruple torpedo tube mount and moving its reloads forward abaft the bridge. One unit, the AMATSUKAZE, was fitted with experimental high-pressure boilers, but her performance was not markedly superior to that of her sisters.		The KAGEROs benefitted greatly from the many teething troubles of the previous ASASHIO class, and as a result experienced almost none of their own. Virtually identical in appearance to their predecessors, they also mounted the same armament of six 5" guns in Type C turrets, and eight 24" torpedo tubes. Although the KAGEROs were some 72 tons heavier and sported a slightly thicker bridge structure, their stability was improved by lowering the fore quadruple torpedo tube mount and moving its reloads forward abaft the bridge. One unit, the AMATSUKAZE, was fitted with experimental high-pressure boilers, but her performance was not markedly superior to that of her sisters.

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 |History= That there were 19 rather than the oft-quoted 18 units in this class, with AKIGUMO representing the nineteenth, will come as a surprise to many. AKIGUMO has always been placed firmly in the following YUGUMO class, and only the most recent publications out of Japan are beginning to buck that trend. This is due primarily to the research and writings of Japanese naval historian Tamura Toshio, who would go further in stating that this has really been more or less common knowledge for many years now.<br />

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-|The Imperial Navy's search for the ideal destroyer found fruition in the KAGERO class, 19 units of which were built between 1939 and 1941. Referred to variously as the "Special Type," "cruiser-type" and, beginning with the KAGEROs, "Type A," this classically- Japanese design combined speed, range, firepower and stability in equal and eminently successful proportions. <br />
+|The Kagero class included 18 destroyers designed and built between the late 1930s and early 1940s. Compared with their predecessors, the Kagero-class destroyers featured more powerful and lighter propulsion, a larger onboard fuel supply and good stability achieved by increasing hull breadth and draught. All but one of the Kagero-class ships were destroyed during the Pacific War. Yukikaze, the only destroyer that survived the war, was transferred to the Republic of China as war reparations and remained in service until 1970. <br />
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 The Kagero-class Destroyer is a Tier 9 ship in the Japanese destroyer Tech Tree.<br />