ROCS Pan Chao (PFG2-1108)

History
Taiwan
Name:	ROCS Pan Chao (PFG2-1108)
Namesake:	Pan Chao (班超)
Builder:	China Shipbuilding Corp., Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
Laid down:	25 July 1995
Launched:	3 July 1997
Commissioned:	16 December 1997
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Cheng Kung-class frigate
Displacement:	4,103 tons full
Length:	453 ft (138 m)
Beam:	46.95 ft (14.31 m)
Propulsion:	General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 40,000 shp total
Speed:	29 knots
Complement:	18 officers 180 enlisted 19 flight crew
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPS-49 air search radar SPS-55 surface search radar CAS, STIR gun fire control radar SQS-56 sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	AN/SLQ-32(V)5 (AN/SLQ-32(V)2 + SIDEKICK)
Armament:	40 × SM-1MR at Mk 13 Missile Launcher 4 × Hsiung Feng II and 4 HF-3 supersonic AShM 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun 2 × Bofors 40mm/L70mm guns 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × triple Mark 32 ASW torpedo tubes with Mark 46 anti-submarine torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	Sikorsky S-70C-1/2

ROCS Pan Chao (班超, PFG2-1108) is the sixth of eight Taiwanese-built Cheng Kung-class frigates of the Republic of China Navy, based on the Oliver Hazard Perry class. Laid down in July 1995 and launched in May 1996, Pan Chao was commissioned in December 1997. All of these Taiwanese PFG's have the length of the later Oliver Hazard Perry FFG's, but have a different weapon and electronics fit.

Like her sister ships, Pan Chao was built under license by China SB Corp. at Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC.

As of 2005, Pan Chao is homeported at Tso-Ying naval base.