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ROCS Su Ao

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as USS Callaghan
Career Republic of China Naval Jack
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:7,289 tons standard
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

2 × Mark 141 quad launcher

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.