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The were a group of 19 destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the 1930s. The IJN called them from their plan name. ==Design and description== The ''Kagerō'' class was an enlarged and improved version of the preceding . Their crew numbered 240 officers and enlisted men. The ships measured overall, with a beam of and a draft of .〔Chesneau, p. 194〕 They displaced at standard load and at deep load.〔Whitley, pp. 200–01〕 The ships had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by three Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of for a designed speed of . The ships had a range of at a speed of .〔Jentschura, Jung & Mickel, p. 148〕 The main armament of the ''Kagerō'' class consisted of six in three twin-gun turrets, one superfiring pair aft and one turret forward of the superstructure. They were built with four anti-aircraft guns in two twin-gun mounts, but more of these guns were added over the course of the war. The ships were also armed with eight torpedo tubes for the oxygen-fueled Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo in two quadruple traversing mounts; one reload was carried for each tube.〔 Their anti-submarine weapons comprised 16 depth charges.〔 At the time of introduction, these destroyers were among the most deadly destroyers afloat, primarily due to the excellent range and lethality of its "Long Lance" torpedo. Only the lack of radar hindered their otherwise superb design. As with most pre-World War II ships, ''Kagerō''s were also deficient in anti-submarine and anti-aircraft weaponry as designed. Over the course of the war these deficiencies were remedied, with depth charge capacity increased to 36 and the addition of four depth charge launchers; anti-aircraft weaponry also increased steadily from four 25 mm guns at the start of the war to twenty-eight mounts by the war's end, which necessitated the removal of the upper rear turret. Wartime attrition was hard on the ''Kagerō''s, with 18 of 19 ships lost. In all, six were sunk by air attack, five by submarine attack, five in battle with other surface forces, one by a mine, and the remaining two sunk by a combination of mines and air attack. was the only ''Kagerō''-class ship afloat at the end of the war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kagerō-class destroyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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