Kee Lung-class guided-missile destroyer
![]() ROCS Ma Kung in Kaohsiung Harbor
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History |
Taiwan |
Builder | |
Laid down | 26 June 1978 |
Launched | 24 May 1980 as USS Chandler (DDG-996) |
Acquired | 30 May 2003 |
Name | ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805) |
Commissioned | 3 November 2006 |
Status | Ship in active service |
General characteristics |
Class and type | Kee Lung-class destroyer |
Displacement |
- Light: 6,950 t (6,840 long tons; 7,660 short tons)
- Full: 9,574 t (9,423 long tons; 10,554 short tons)
- Dead Weight: 2,624 t (2,583 long tons; 2,892 short tons)
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Length | 171.6 m (563 ft) |
Beam | 16.8 m (55 ft) |
Draft | 10.1 m (33.1 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 | |
Electronic warfare & decoys | |
Armament | |
Aircraft carried | 1 Sikorsky S-70C(M) helicopter |
ROCS Ma Kong (馬公, DDG-1805) is a Kee Lung-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of Republic of China Navy. It is named after Ma Kong City, Penghu Island, a port city and the location of an important ROCN base.
She was formerly the American Kidd-class destroyer USS Chandler (DDG-996) which was decommissioned from the United States Navy in September 1999 and sold to the Republic of China Navy on 30 May 2003.
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