Kidd-class Guided Missile Destroyer

The Kouroush/Kidd/Ontario-class Guided Missile Destroyers are a class of destroyer in service in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command from 1981 to 2026. Originally, the Kidd-class was intended to be used in the Imperial Iranian Navy, however because of the of arms embargo after the Iranian Revolution, the Kidd-class destroyers were sold to Canada for 550 million dollars in 1980. In 2001, the Taiwanese government ordered six Kidd-class guided missile destroyers for their navy. In 2008, the Iranian government ordered six Kidd-class destroyers from the United States as part of the end of the arms embargo. In 2010, the Kidd-class underwent an extensive overhaul and upgrade to allow it to serve into the 2020s.

Original Configuration

 * Type: Guided Missile Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DDG)
 * Characteristics
 * Length: 563 feet (171.6 meters)
 * Beam: 55 feet (16.77 meters)
 * Draught: 32.8 feet (10 meters)
 * Displacement (Light): 7,289 tons (7,174 long tons; 8,035 short tons)
 * Displacement (Loaded): 9,783 tons (9,628 long tons; 10,784 short tons)
 * Crew: 363 (31 officers and 332 enlisted)
 * Propulsion: 4 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts: 80,000 shp (40 MW)
 * 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)
 * Speed: 33 Knots (61.12 Kilometers/Hour; 37.98 Miles/Hour)
 * Sensor Suite/Electronic Countermeasures
 * AN/SPS-48E 3D Air Search Radar
 * AN/SPS-49(V)5 2D Air Search Radar
 * AN/SPS-55 Surface Search Radar
 * AN/SPS-64(V)9 Navigation Radar
 * AN/SPQ-9A Gun Fire Control Radar
 * AN/SPG-60 Gun Fire Control Radar
 * AN/SQS-53A Hull mounted Sonar
 * Countermeasures:
 * AN/SLQ-32(V)2-5 Electronic Warfare Suite
 * AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo countermeasures suite
 * MK.36 SBROC decoy launchers
 * Armament
 * 2 x Mark 45 Mod 0 5"/54-caliber naval gun
 * 2 x Mark 26 twin-arm missile launcher (fires RIM-66 Standard)
 * 2 x Mark 141 armoured box launchers (fires UGM-84 Harpoon)
 * 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 cannons
 * 2 x Mark 32 triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (Mark 46 torpedoes)
 * 1 x Mark 112 8-cell ASROC Launcher
 * Aircraft Carried: 1 x CH-124 Sea King (replaced by CH-148 Cyclone)

2010 Configuration

 * Type: Guided Missile Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DDG)
 * Characteristics
 * Length: 563 feet (171.6 meters)
 * Beam: 55 feet (16.77 meters)
 * Draught: 32.8 feet (10 meters)
 * Displacement: 7,200 tons (Light); 9,800 tons (Full Load)
 * Crew: 278 (30 officers and 248 enlisted)
 * Propulsion: 4 Vektris Engineering (license-built GE) LM2500+ gas turbines, 2 shafts: 150,000 shp
 * Range: 6,400 nautical miles at 20 knots
 * Speed: 35 Knots (64.82 km/h)
 * Sensor Suite:
 * System 025A medium-range air search radar
 * System 034SCR long-range surface search radar
 * AN/SPQ-9B gun fire control and ranging radar
 * AN/SPG-62 missile fire control radars
 * AN/SQS-525 active variable-depth hull sonar
 * AN/SQR-507 passive towed sonar array
 * System 050C Integrated Information Transfer System
 * Countermeasures:
 * AN/SLQ-32(V)6 electronic warfare system
 * S2170 Sea Sentor Torpedo Defence System
 * Mk 53 Nulka active missile decoy system
 * Armament:
 * 2 x Mk.45 Mod 4 5"/62-caliber naval guns
 * 2 x Mk.41 64-cell Vertical Launching System (fires 128 BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUR-139 VL-ASROC, RIM-156 Standard II, RIM-161 Standard III, RIM-162 ESSM)
 * 2 x 35mm Naval Defender CIWS cannons
 * 1 x Mk.49 Rolling Airframe Missile Launcher (21 RIM-116 missiles plus 84 reloads)
 * 2 x Mk.32 12.75" triple torpedo tubes (fires Mk.46/50/54 lightweight torpedoes)
 * 4 x M2 Browning 12.7mm machine guns
 * Aircraft Carried: 1 x CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopter

Related Development

 * Spruance-class
 * Ticonderoga-class

Comparable Vessels

 * Type 43 Admiral-class