ROCS Ma Kong explained

-- USS Kidd information better placed in that article --> Ship Country: Taiwan Ship Builder: Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi Ship Laid Down: 26 June 1978 Ship Launched: 24 May 1980 as Ship Acquired: 30 May 2003 Hide Header: yes Ship Name: ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805) Ship Commissioned: 3 November 2006 Ship Status: Ship in active service Ship Displacement: Light: 6950t Full: 9574t Dead Weight: 2624t Ship Length: 171.6 m (563 ft) Ship Beam: 16.8 m (55 ft) Ship Draft: 10.1 m (33.1 ft) Ship Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total (60 MW) Ship Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h) Ship Sensors: 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 Ship Ew: AN/SLQ-32(V)3 OUTBOARD II EW Suite Mark 36 SRBOC AN/SLQ-25 Nixie towed sonar decoy Ship 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 Ship Aircraft: 1 Sikorsky S-70C(M) helicopter

ROCS Ma Kong (馬公, DDG-1805) is a 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 which was decommissioned from the United States Navy in September 1999 and sold to the Republic of China Navy on 30 May 2003.