ROCS Tso Ying 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: 11 August 1979 as Ship Acquired: 30 May 2003 Hide Header: yes Ship Name: ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803) Ship Commissioned: 3 November 2006 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 Tso Ying (DDG-1803;) is a Kee Lung-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN; Taiwan). It was formally commissioned at Suao Naval Base in northeastern Taiwan on 3 November 2006 along with sister ship . Tso Ying is named after the largest naval base in Taiwan, the Tso Ying Naval Base in Tsoying District, Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan. The Tso Ying Naval Base is also the location of the Taiwanese naval academy and fleet headquarters.

Tso Ying, formerly, the lead ship of her class of destroyers for the United States Navy, was purchased by the Taiwanese government in 2004. Her new name in ROCN service was originally planned to be, which is a transliteration of "Kidd" into Chinese.