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Keelung 2006

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
基隆 [Keelung] (ex-Chiteh, ex-Scott)	1801		Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	12.2.1979	1.3.1980	24.10.1981 // 17.1.2005	in service (2019)
蘇澳 [Suao] (ex-Mingteh, ex-Callaghan)	1802		Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	23.10.1978	1.12.1979	29.8.1981 // 17.12.2005	in service (2019)
左營 [Tsoying] (ex-Tongteh, ex-Kidd)	1803		Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	26.6.1978	11.8.1979	27.6.1981 // 25.8.2006	in service (2019)
馬公 [Makung] (ex-Witeh, ex-Chandler)	1805		Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	7.5.1979	24.5.1980	13.3.1982 // 25.8.2006	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	7326 light
Displacement full, t	9950
Length, m	161.2 wl 171.7 oa
Breadth, m	16.8
Draught, m	7.01 mean 10.1 over sonar dome
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines
Power, h. p.	86000
Max speed, kts	31.5
Fuel, t	gas turbine oil 1650
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(20)
Armament	2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 2 x 2 Standard SM-2MR SAM (68 RIM-66), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (24), 2 S-70C Seahawk helicopters
Electronic equipment	SPS-64(V)9, SPS-55, SPS-48E, SPS-49(V)5, 2x SPG-51D, SPQ-9A, SPG-60, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQS-53A sonar, SLQ-32(V)5 ECM suite, 4x Mk 137 decoy RL (Mk 36 SRBOC system), SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, SYS-2 CCS
Complement	364

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Project history

Former USN Kidd class destroyers. Originally planned names were changed prior transfer.

Modernizations

2009, Suao: + 2 x 4 Hsiung Feng 3 SSM (8 Hsiung Feng 3)

Naval service

No significant events.

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