ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802)

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Career (USA)
ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802), then USS Callaghan (USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in background)
Name:	Callaghan
Builder:	Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Launched:	December 1, 1979
Commissioned:	29 August 1981
Decommissioned:	31 March 1998
Struck:	31 March 1998
Fate:	Sold to Taiwan, 30 May 2003
Career (Taiwan)
Name:	Su Ao
Acquired:	30 May 2003
Commissioned:	December 17, 2005
Status:	Active in service as of 2008
General characteristics
Displacement:	7,289 tons standard
Length:	171.6 m (563 ft)
Beam:	16.8 m (55 ft)
Draft:	9.6 m (31.5 ft)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total (60 MW)
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h)
Sensors and processing systems:	SPS-48E air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar SPS-55 surface search radar SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SQS-53 sonar SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II
Armament:	2 × Mark 26 launchers 62 × SM-2 Block IIIA SAM 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher
Aircraft carried:	1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite

ROCS Su Ao (蘇澳, DDG-1802) is a Kee Lung-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy. Su Ao was formerly USS Callaghan (DDG-994), which was decommissioned by the U.S. in 1998. For some time, Su Ao was tentatively named Ming Teh (明德), following the example of Chi Teh (紀德), but it was later decided to be named Su Ao, after the Su-Ao naval base in eastern Taiwan.