ROCS Su Ao
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Yard: | Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Awarded: | March 23, 1978 |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | |
| Commissioned: | August 29, 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | March 31, 1998 |
| Fate: | Sold to Taiwan |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,783 tons full |
| Length: | 171.6 m (563 ft) |
| Beam: | 16.8 m (55 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × GE LM2500 gas turbine 80,000 shp total |
| Speed: | 33 knots (60.8 km/h) |
| Complement: | ? officers ? enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × Mark 26 Standard missile launchers 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 8 × AGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 inch 54 cal gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedos 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 Outbpard II |
| Aircraft: | 1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite |
USS Callaghan (DDG-994) was the second ship in a class of destroyers operated by the U.S. Navy. Kidd class vessels were designed for air defense in hot weather.