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     993 Kidd      

Photo byOctober 1995. The Black Sea. Photo from the archives of A. Andreev.

Country: USA.
Class, [Type]: Kidd, [DDG].

Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, USA.
Launch date: 11 August 1979.
Commission date: 27 March 1981.
Decommission date: 12 March 1998.

Displacement ( tons ): 8000 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 171 x 17,5 x 8,8.
Main machinery: 4 x GE LM 2500 gas turbines ( 80000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 30.
Range ( miles ): 6000 at 20 knots.
Complement: 296 ( 24 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 6 GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.
Missiles: SSM: 2 x 4 Mk141 Harpoon; SAM: 2 x 2 Mk29 Standard missile SM-2MR; GDC RAM.
Torpedoes: 2 x 3 324mm Mk32.

Radars: Air: AN/SPS-48, AN/SPS-49; Navigation: AN/SPS-64; Fire Control: AN/SPG-51, AN/SPG-60, AN/SPQ-9.
Sonars: AN/SQS-53C.
Helicopters: 2 x SH-2B Sea Sprite or 1 x SH-3D Sea King.
Comment: Sold to Taiwan. Renamed Ying ( DDG-1803 ).

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