ROCS Su Ao
Appearance
ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802), then USS Callaghan
(USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in background) | |
History | |
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USA | |
Name | Callaghan |
Builder | list error: <br /> list (help) Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
Launched | 1 December 1979 |
Commissioned | 29 August 1981 |
Decommissioned | 31 March 1998 |
Stricken | 31 March 1998 |
Fate | Sold to Taiwan, 30 May 2003 |
History | |
Taiwan | |
Name | Su Ao |
Acquired | 30 May 2003 |
Commissioned | 17 December 2005 |
Status | 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) |
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 | list error: <br /> list (help) 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 | list error: <br /> list (help) 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 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher |
Aircraft carried | list error: <br /> list (help) 1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite |
ROCS Su Ao (蘇澳, DDG-1802) is a Kee Lung-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy. Su Ao was formerly USS Callaghan (DDG-994), 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.