JS Ishikari

JS Ishikari (DE-226) was the first destroyer escort with a gas turbine engine and surface-to-surface missiles of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Alternatively she had the OPS-28 surface search and target acquisition radar which could deal with low-altitude aircraft and missiles.

The Ishikari design was equipped with eight Boeing Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles as the key weapon system whereas traditional Japanese frigates were specialized in anti-submarine warfare.

She was commissioned on 28 March 1981, and was deployed at the Ominato District Force (home-ported at Mutsu, Aomori).

It was decided that Ishikari was too small to continue production, so the vessel was succeeded by the Yūbari class two years later.