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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
成功 [Cheung Kung]	1101		China SB Corp., Kaohsiung	2.12.1990	5.10.1991	7.5.1993	in service (2019)
鄭和 [Cheng Ho]	1103		China SB Corp., Kaohsiung	3.11.1991	15.10.1992	28.3.1994	in service (2019)
繼光 [Chi Kuang]	1105		China SB Corp., Kaohsiung	4.10.1992	27.9.1993	7.3.1995	in service (2019)
岳飛 [Yueh Fei]	1106		China SB Corp., Kaohsiung	5.9.1993	26.8.1994	6.2.1996	in service (2019)
子儀 [Tzu I]	1107		China SB Corp., Kaohsiung	7.8.1994	13.7.1995	9.1.1997	in service (2019)
班超 [Pan Chao]	1108		China SB Corp., Kaohsiung	17.1.1995	4.7.1996	16.12.1997	in service (2019)
張騫 [Chang Chien]	1109		China SB Corp., Kaohsiung	4.12.1996	14.5.1997	1.12.1998	in service (2019)
田單 [Tian Dan]	1110		China SB Corp., Kaohsiung	21.2.2001	17.10.2002	9.3.2004	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3100
Displacement full, t	4200
Length, m	125.9 wl 138.8 oa
Breadth, m	13.7 wl 14.3 deck
Draught, m	5.70 mean 8.60 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	2 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines
Power, h. p.	41000
Max speed, kts	29
Fuel, t	gas turbine oil 587
Endurance, nm(kts)	5000(18)
Armament	2 x 4 Hsiung Feng II SSM (8 Hsiung Feng II), 1 x 1 Standard SM-1MR SAM (40 RIM-66A, can also carry and launch up to 6 RGM-84L Harpoon SSM), 1 x 1 - 76/62 OTO-Melara Compact, 2 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 564, 1 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 1 helicopter (S-70C Thunderhawk)
Electronic equipment	1101, 1103: SPS-55, SPS-49(v)5, STIR-2.4, Mk 92 mod. 6, Mk 90 radars, DE-1160B sonar, provision for SQR-18A(v)2 sonar, Chang Feng IV ECM suite, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, 2x Kung Fen decoy RL, SYS-2 CCS 1105-1110: SPS-55, SPS-49(v)5, STIR-2.4, Mk 92 mod. 6, Mk 90 radars, DE-1160B sonar, provision for ATAS(v)2 sonar, Chang Feng IV ECM suite, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, 2x Kung Fen decoy RL, SYS-2 CCS
Complement	206

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Project history

Design is a slightly modified version of the "long-hulled" USN Oliver Hazard Perry class. Named for Chinese maritime heroes. Construction of the first two aided by "kits" supplied by Bath Iron Works, which also provided technical assistance in constructing the others. Originally only four were to have been built to the basic design, but development of the phased-array radar and vertically launched SAM for the Batch II, updated variant lagged, and the Batch II program was canceled altogether in 1994. Funds to construct the eighth unit were provided in the 1999 budget; the ship had earlier been canceled in 1994 and was to be reordered in 1999, but the actual contract was delayed to December 2000.

Have fin stabilizers, rudder roll-control, and the Prairie/Masker acoustic sound signature reduction air-bubble generation system. The US Norden Systems SYS-2(V)2 sensor data fusion system is installed, as is the Vitro Cando off-the-shelf computerized data system, which assists the Mk 92 weapons control system. A RAST helicopter hold-down and transfer system is fitted. To be used by the Mk 13 launcher, 71 RGM-84L Harpoon Block II missiles were requested from the US for this class in 2000; they may eventually replace the Hsiung Feng II launchers, which could then be mounted ashore for coastal defense and aboard patrol combatants. The class may be fitted with a Mk 49 RAM SAM launcher and RIM-116 missiles at a later date.

Modernizations

2007-2010s, Cheung Kung, Cheng Ho, Chi Kuang, Yueh Fei, Chang Chien: - 2 x 4 Hsiung Feng II SSM; + 2 x 2 Hsiung Feng III SSM (4 Hsiung Feng III), 2 x 2 Hsiung Feng II SSM (4 Hsiung Feng II)

2010s, Tzu I, Pan Chao, Tian Dan: - 2 x 4 Hsiung Feng II SSM; + 2 x 4 Hsiung Feng III SSM (8 Hsiung Feng III)

Naval service

No significant events.

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