Uss Kidd (Ddg-993)

CareerUSN Jack
Yard:Litton Ingalls,
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Awarded:March 23, 1978
Laid down:June 26, 1978
Launched:August 11, 1979
Commissioned:March 27, 1981
Decommissioned:March 12, 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 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 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 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
Derived from the Spruance class, USS Kidd (DDG-993) was the lead ship in a class of destroyers operated by the U.S. Navy. Kidd class vessels were designed for air defense in hot weather. The vessel was named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was on board the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the first flag officer to die in World War II. Originally named Kouroush, Kidd was ordered by the Shah of Iran, but was undelivered when the 1979 Iranian Revolution occurred. Subsequent to this, the U.S. Navy elected to commission them for service in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea, as they were equipped with heavy-duty air conditioning and were also well suited to filtering sand and the results from NBC warfare. She was commissioned in 1981.
17 years of history go here.
Kidd was decommissioned in 1998. She was transferred to the Republic of China in 2004 and named Chi Teh (DDG-1801). For other U.S. Navy vessels named Kidd, see USS Kidd.

External links

Navysite.de page Kidd

 

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