Keelung (Kidd) class (DDGHM)
IN SERVICE: 4
KEELUNG (Defence International)
KEELUNG (KIDD) CLASS SILHOUETTE (Ian Sturton)
KEELUNG (Ian Sturton)
Name
KEELUNG (ex-Chi
Teh, ex-Scott)
SUAO (ex-Wu Teh,
ex-Callaghan)
TSOYING (ex-Ming
Teh, ex-Kidd)
No
1801
(ex-DD
995)
1802
(ex-DD
994)
1803
(ex-DD
993)
Builders
Laid
down
Launched Commissioned
Ingalls
12 Feb
1 Mar
Shipbuilding
1979
1980
Ingalls
23 Oct
1 Dec
Shipbuilding
1978
1979
Ingalls
Shipbuilding
26
June
1978
11 Aug
1979
24 Oct 1981
29 Aug 1981
27 June 1981
MAKUNG
1805
(ex-Tong-Teh,
(ex-DD
ex-Chandler)
996)
Ingalls
7 May
24 May
Shipbuilding
1979
1980
13 Mar 1982
Displacement, tons:
6,950 light; 9,574 full load
Dimensions, feet
563.3 × 55 × 20
(metres):
(171.7 × 16.8 × 6.2)
Main machinery:
4 GE LM 2500 gas turbines; 86,000 hp (64.16 MW) sustained; 2
shafts
Speed, knots:
33
Range, n miles:
6,000 at 20 kt
Complement:
363 (31 officers)
Missiles: SSM:
4 McDonnell Douglas RGM 84L Block 2 Harpoon (1 quad) launchers
[Ref 1]; active radar homing to 130 km (70 n miles) at 0.9 Mach;
warhead 227 kg.
SAM:
37 GDC Standard SM-2 Block IIIA; command/inertial guidance;
semi-active radar homing to 167 km (90 n miles) at 2 Mach. 2 twin Mk
26 launchers [Ref 2].
Guns:
2 FMC 5 in (127 mm)/54 Mk 45 Mod 0 [Ref 3]; 20 rds/min to 23 km
(12.6 n miles); weight of shell 32 kg.
2 General Electric/General Dynamics 20 mm Vulcan Phalanx
6-barrelled Mk 15 [Ref 4]; 3,000 rds/min (4,500 in Block 1).
4-12.7 mm MGs.
Torpedoes:
6-324 mm Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes [Ref 5]. Honeywell Mk 46 Mod 5;
anti-submarine; active/passive homing to 11 km (5.9 n miles) at 40 kt;
warhead 44 kg. Torpedoes fired from inside the hull under the hangar.
Countermeasures:
Decoys: 4 Loral Hycor SRBOC 6-barrelled fixed Mk 36; IR flares and
chaff to 4 km (2.2 n miles). SLQ-25 Nixie; torpedo decoy.
Combat data
ACDS Block 1 Level 1 with datalinks.
systems:
Weapons control:
SWG-1A Harpoon LCS. 2 Mk 74 MFCS. Mk 86 Mod 5 GFCS. Mk 116
FCS for ASW. Mk 14 WDS. SYS 2(V)2 IADT. 4 SYR 3393 for SAM
mid-course guidance.
Radars:
Air search: ITT SPS-48E [Ref 6]; 3D; E/F-band.
Raytheon SPS-49(V)5 [Ref 7]; C/D-band.
Air/Surface search:
ISC Cardion SPS-55 [Ref 8]; I/J-band.
Navigation:
Raytheon SPS-64; I/J-band.
Fire control:
2 Raytheon SPG-51D [Ref 9], 1 Lockheed SPG-60 [Ref 10], 1
Lockheed SPQ-9A [Ref 11].
Sonars:
General Electric/Hughes SQS-53D; bow-mounted; search and attack;
medium frequency.
Gould SQR-19 (TACTAS); passive towed array (may be fitted).
Helicopters:
1 Sikorsky S-70C(M) [Ref 12].
Programmes: Originally ordered by the Iranian government in 1974, the contracts were taken
over by the US Navy on 25 July 1979. All paid off from USN service in 1998-99. Offered to the
Taiwan government, intention to buy confirmed on 2 October 2001.
Modernisation: All received major modernisation from 1988-90. Further package completed
prior to transfer. ASROC has been removed.
Structure: Optimised for general warfare, mainmast and radar aerials are in different
configuration than Spruance class.
Operational: Keelung and Suao arrived in Taiwan on 8 December 2005 and were
recommissioned on 17 December 2005. Tsoying and Makung arrived in October 2006. All four
ships are to be based initially at Suao while a deepwater jetty at Tsoying is completed.