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TORPEDO SHIPS

KEELUNG destroyers (1981-1982/2005-2006)

Keelung 2010

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)

 

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

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.

Keelung 2006

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