ROCS Su Ao

Career
Yard:	Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Awarded:	March 23, 1978
Laid down:	October 23, 1978
Launched:	December 1, 1979
Commissioned:	December 17, 2005
Fate:	Template:Ship fate box active in service
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:	?
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) 54 cal gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher
Sensors:	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
Aircraft:	1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite

ROCS Su Ao (蘇澳, DDG-1802) is a Kidd class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy. Su Ao was formerly USS Callaghan, 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.

Other units of the class

• ROCS Kee Lung (基隆, DDG-1801)
• ROCS Tso Ying (左營, DDG-1803)
• ROCS Ma Kong (馬公, DDG-1805)