USS Chandler (DDG-996)

9700 tons of standard

172 meters

16.80 meters

8.8 meters

34 officers, 299 sailors

Two propellers, each driven over 4 gas turbines; 80,000 shaft horsepower

32.5 knots

6,000 nautical miles ( 11,000 km ) at 20 knots

2 Doppelarmstarter for missiles, 2 triple torpedo launchers, two 127 mm guns. Later, an additional 8 anti-ship missiles

The USS Chandler (DDG -996 ) is a destroyer of the Kidd class. The ship was named after Admiral Theodore E. Chandler. After decommissioning in the U.S. Navy, the ship was sold to the Republic of China.

History

The Chandler in 1978 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in given order. The client was the United States Navy, the ship should however be built for Iran. There the name Andushirvan was provided for the ship. After the Iranian revolution, the contract was canceled, however, and the ship made ​​in 1981 with the U.S. Navy in service.

The first use 1984, the Chandler in the Western Pacific, the second in 1986 in the Persian Gulf. In 1987 she rescued 41 crew members of fallen into fire Cypriot supertanker pivot. She also was part of Operation Earnest Will. 1988 drove the destroyer again in the Western Pacific, and from there during the Iran -Iraq war again in the Persian Gulf.

In the early 1990s laid the Chandler a dockyard time at Todd Pacific Shipyards in which, among other things, the New Threat Upgrade was installed. In 1991 she participated in Operation Desert Storm, where she performed air protection for ships in the Strait of Hormuz. 1993 the ship sailed as part of a carrier battle group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ( CVN -72) in the Persian Gulf, where it participated in Operation Southern Watch. As of October, the battle group then held on against Somalia.

The Chandler was put out of service in 1999 and sold in 2001 to the Republic of China, where it continues as Ma Kong since late 2006.