ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802)

ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802), then USS Callaghan
History
Taiwan
Builder:	Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down:	23 October 1978
Launched:	1 December 1979 as USS Callaghan (DDG-994)
Acquired:	30 May 2003
Name:	ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802)
Namesake:	Su-Ao Naval Base, Su-ao, Yilan
Commissioned:	17 December 2005
Status:	in active service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Kee Lung-class destroyer
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:	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:	2 × Mark 26 launchers 62 × SM-2 Block IIIA SAM 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 in (127 mm) gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:	One SH-3 Sea King or Two SH-2 Seasprite helicopters

ROCS Su Ao (蘇澳, DDG-1802) is a Kee Lung-class destroyer guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of the Republic of China Navy. Su Ao was formerly American Kidd-class destroyer USS Callaghan (DDG-994), which was decommissioned from the United States Navy in 1998. For some time after the ship's 30 May 2003 purchase, 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.