USS Kidd (DDG-993)
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| Career |  |
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| Yard: | Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Awarded: | March 23, 1978 |
| Laid down: | June 26, 1978 |
| Launched: | August 11, 1979 |
| Commissioned: | March 27, 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | March 12, 1998 |
| Fate: | Sold to Taiwan |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,783 tons full |
| Length: | 171.6 m (563 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.8 m (55 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
| Complement: | 31 officers 332 enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × Mark 26 Standard missile launchers 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) / 54 caliber gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher |
| Sensors: | AN/SPS-48E 3D air search radar AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar SPS-55 missile fire control radar SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SQS-53 sonar SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II |
| Aircraft: | 1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite |
Derived from the Spruance class, USS Kidd (DDG-993) was the lead ship in her class of destroyers operated by the U.S. Navy. These vessels were designed for air defense in hot weather. The vessel was named after Medal of Honor recipient Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the first flag officer to die in World War II.
Originally named Kouroush, Kidd was ordered by the Shah of Iran, but was undelivered when the 1979 Iranian Revolution occurred. Subsequent to this, the U.S. Navy elected to commission the Kidd class for service in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea, as they were equipped with heavy-duty air conditioning and were also well suited to filtering sand and the results from NBC warfare. Kidd class ships were known in the fleet informally as the "Ayatollah" or "dead admiral" class.
She was commissioned in 1981.
In 1987, she won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet.
Kidd was decommissioned on March 12,1998.
For other U.S. Navy vessels named Kidd, see USS Kidd.
[edit] Current status
ROCS Tso Ying (左營, DDG-1803) is a Kee Lung class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy. It was formally commissioned at Suao Naval Base in northeastern Taiwan on November 3, 2006 along with its sister ship the ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805). Tso Ying is named after the largest naval base in Taiwan, the Tso Ying Naval Base in Tsoying District, Kaohsiung City at southern Taiwan. The Tso Ying Naval Base is also the location of the Republic of China's naval academy and fleet headquarters.
Kidd was sold to the Republic of China in 2004 and originally planned to be named Chi The, which is the transliteration of Kidd into Chinese. However, due to the her condition in storage she will be the third Kidd class vessel commissioned by ROCN and named Tso Ying (DDG-1803). Thus, the lead vessel of the new ROCN Kee Lung class destroyers will be ROCS Kee Lung (DDG-1801), formerly USS Scott (DDG-995).
Tso Ying is expected to be commissioned by the end of 2006, along with her sister ship, ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805), formerly USS Chandler (DDG-996).
