ROCS Ma Kong

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.

ROCS Ma Kung in Kaohsiung Harbor
History
Taiwan
Builder	Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
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)
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	SPS-48E air search radar SPS-49(V)5 air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar SPS-55 surface search radar 2 × SPG-51D Missile Control Radar SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SPS-64 Navigation Radar SQS-53 hull-mounted sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32(V)3 OUTBOARD II EW Suite Mark 36 SRBOC AN/SLQ-25 Nixie towed sonar decoy
Armament	2 × Mark 26 launchers with 68 × SM-2 Block IIIA SAM 1 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 4 × RGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) gun 2 × Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 4 × 12.7mm MGs 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried	1 Sikorsky S-70C(M) helicopter

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.

External links

•  This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.