Kidd-class destroyer

	USS Scott on 21 March 1986
Class overview
Name	Kidd-class destroyer
Builders	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Operators	United States Navy; Republic of China Navy (as Kee Lung class);
Preceded by	Spruance class
Succeeded by	Arleigh Burke class
Subclasses	Kee Lung class
Built	1978–1982
In commission	1981–1999 (United States Navy); 2005–present (Republic of China Navy);
Completed	4
Active	4 (Taiwan)
General characteristics
Type	Guided-missile destroyer
Displacement	Light: 7,289 t (7,174 long tons; 8,035 short tons); Full: 9,783 t (9,628 long tons; 10,784 short tons); Dead Weight: 2,494 t (2,455 long tons; 2,749 short tons);
Length	563 ft (172 m)
Beam	55 ft (17 m)
Draught	31.5 ft (9.6 m)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW)
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range	6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph); 3,300 nautical miles (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph);
Complement	28 officers; 320 enlisted
Sensors and ; processing systems	SPS-48E 3D Air Search Radar; SPS-49(V)5 2D Air Search Radar; 2 × SPG-51D Missile Control Radar; 1 × AN/SPG-60 Radar Gun Fire Control Radar; SPS-55 Surface Search Radar; SPQ-9A Gun Fire Control 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 × 5-inch (127mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns; 2 × Mk 26 launchers for 68 × RIM-66 SM-2MR Block IIIA（RIM-66K-2 and RUR-5 ASROC; 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 cannons (Varies from ship to ship, Block 0/1/1A/1B); 2 × 4 Mk 141 Harpoon missile canisters; 2 × Mark 32 triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (Mk46 torpedoes) (14 torpedoes);
Aircraft carried	1 SH-3 helicopter or 2 SH-2 Seasprite LAMPS helicopters
Aviation facilities	Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters

The Kidd-class destroyers were a series of four guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) based on the Spruance class. In contrast to their predecessor's focus on anti-submarine warfare, the Kidds were designed as more advanced multipurpose ships with the addition of considerably enhanced anti-aircraft capabilities. Originally ordered for the former Imperial Iranian Navy, the contracts were canceled when the 1979 Iranian Revolution began, and the ships were completed for the United States Navy. They were decommissioned in 1999 and sold to the Republic of China Navy as the Kee Lung class.

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