Enoshima-class minesweeper

The Enoshima class is a class of coastal minesweepers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Development
From the lessons learned from the 1991 dispatch of the Self-Defense Forces to the Persian Gulf, the Maritime Self-Defense Force took the example of the Royal Navy's Sandown class minehunter, built after the 1994 plan, especially in order to improve its capabilities regarding mine clearance. . The waters around Japan have many muddy seabeds that are not suitable for minesweeping, and abandonment of minesweeping ability is unacceptable. For this reason, the class is given the ability to sweep with Australian-made -sensitive minesweepers, but due to, it was decided that it would not be installed all the time but would be received from  at sea as needed. , and mobility was restricted.

For, it was built as a new type of minesweeper equipped with a domestic system that has the same performance as the overseas-made minesweeping system equipped in the Sugashima class, as well as realizing.