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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
كوروش [Kouroush]	11	4601	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	26.6.1978	11.8.1979	27.6.1981 // ---	completed for USA (Kidd)
داریوش [Daryush]	12	4602	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	23.10.1978	1.12.1979	29.8.1981 // ---	completed for USA (Callaghan)
اردشیر [Ardeshir]	13		Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	---	---	---	cancelled 6.1976
نادر [Nader]	14	4603	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	12.2.1979	1.3.1980	24.10.1981 // ---	completed for USA (Scott)
شاپور [Shapour]	15		Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	---	---	---	cancelled 6.1976
انوشیروان [Anoushirvan]	16	4604	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula (Litton Industries), USA	7.5.1979	24.5.1980	13.3.1982 // ---	completed for USA (Chandler)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	6950 light
Displacement full, t	9574
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-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (52 RIM-66, 16 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (24), 1 2 SH-2 helicopter
Electronic equipment	LN-66, SPS-55, SPS-48C, 2x SPG-51D, SPQ-9A, SPG-60, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQS-53A sonar, SLQ-32(v)2 ECM suite, 4x Mk 137 decoy RL (Mk 36 SRBOC system), SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy, NTDS CCS
Complement	364

Project history

Iran ordered six (later reduced to four) anti-aircraft versions of the Spruance class in 1973-74. They were assigned the USN hull numbers DD993-998. Two (DD995 and 997) were cancelled in 1976 before they were ordered, order for four ships was issued 23.4.1978, on the same day DD996 and 998 were reclassified as DD995 and 996. During Iranian revolution DD995 and 996 were cancelled 3.2.1979 and DD993 and 994 on 31.3.1979. They were offered for sale, and all four were purchased by USN as the Kidd dass in July 1979, receiving DDG hull numbers in the Spruance series. As in the case of Virginia class cruisers, they have magazine stowage for 68 missiles, with two SPG-51D guidance radars plus an SPG-60. The greatly increased displacement of the Kidds is due in part to the addition of armour. A thirty-first Spruance, DD997, was authorised in FY78 with the proviso that it had increased helicopter facilities; however, she was identical to the 30 earlier ships already ordered, except for the provision of Kevlar armour and an SPS-49 air search radar. The Reagan Administration FY83-FY87 programme included three more ships of this type in FY86-FY87, out of a planned total of six. None was built.

? Ivan Gogin, 2019