This deployment is great to see, but it’s not clear to me how a helicopter carrier is going to protect anything from anti-ship missiles.
Sink the subs before they fire the missiles.
“not clear to me how a helicopter carrier is going to protect anything from anti-ship missiles.”
Pretty much every asset in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is about ASW (Anti-Surface Warfare) This ship exists to counter anti-ship missiles and submarines.
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
NOLQ-3D-1 EW suite
Mark 36 SRBOC
Anti-torpedo mobile decoy (MOD)
Floating acoustic jammer (FAJ)
Armament:
2 × Phalanx CIWS
2 × SeaRAM CIWS
Aircraft carried:
7 ASW helicopters and 2 SAR helicopters[1]
28 aircraft maximum