JS Shirane

JS Shirane (しらね, Shi-ra-ne) (DDH-143) was the lead ship of her class of destroyers in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

[4] she passed by the Freedom Tower as part of the ship parade in New York Harbor and the Hudson River on May 23, 2012.

[6] She was decommissioned on March 25, 2015, as the Shirane class was slowly being phased out by the newer Izumo-class helicopter destroyers.

In November 2015, the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that Shirane would be in a live-fire test against the XASM-3 supersonic anti-ship missile in 2016.

[7] After undergoing several tests in Wakasa Bay as a target for XASM-3 she was sold for scrapping on October 31 and dismantling began on the same day.