ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802), then USS Callaghan (USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in background) |
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| Career (Republic of China) | |
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| Builder: | Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | 23 October 1978 |
| Launched: | 1 December 1979 as USS Callaghan (DDG-994) |
| Acquired: | 30 May 2003 |
| Name: | ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802) |
| Namesake: | Su-Ao Naval Base, Su-ao, Yilan |
| Commissioned: | 17 December 2005 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Kee Lung-class destroyer |
| 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
2 × Mark 141 quad launcher
2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 x Sikorsky S-70C(M)1/2 Seahawk |
ROCS Su Ao (蘇澳, DDG-1802) is a Kee Lung-class destroyer guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of the Republic of China Navy. Su Ao was formerly American Kidd-class destroyer USS Callaghan (DDG-994), which was decommissioned from the United States Navy in 1998. For some time after the ship's 30 May 2003 purchase, 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.
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