Kang Ding-class Frigate
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The Kang Ding-class Guided Missile Frigate is a class of warship (based on the French La Fayette-class) in service in the Republic of China Navy from May 1996 onwards.
Specifications[edit | edit source]
- Role: Guided Frigate (Hull designation symbol FFG)
- Crew: 141
- Characteristics
- Length: 410 feet (124.97 meters)
- Beam: 50.53 feet (15.4 meters)
- Draft: 14.44 feet (4.4 meters)
- Displacement: 3,200 tons (3,600 tons full load)
- Power Plant: 4 diesel SEMT Pielstick 12PA6V280 STC2, 21000 hp (15 400 kW)
- Range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,000 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h), 9000 at 12 knots (22 km/h)
- Speed: 25 Knots (46,3 Kilometers/Hour; 28.77 Miles/Hour)
- Sensor Suite
- 1 x Air/Surface DRBV 15C sentry radar
- 1 x firing control radar for the 100 mm gun
- 1 x DRBN34 navigation radar
- 1 x DRBN34 landing radar
- 1 x Saïgon ARBG 1 radio interceptor
- 1 x ARBR 21 radar interceptor
- 2 x Dagaie Mk2 chaff launcher
- 1 x AN/SLQ-25 Nixie tugged noise maker
- 1 x Prairie-Masker noise reduction system
- 1 x Syracuse II
- 1 x Inmarsat
- Armament
- 1 x 100mm TR automatic gun
- 2 x 20mm modèle F2 gun
- 8 x HF-2E Hsuing Feng II Anti-ship Missiles
- 1 x Crotale CN2 CIWS
- Aircraft Carried: 1 x SH-70C(M)-1/2 Thunderhawk
Unit Run[edit | edit source]
| Ship Name | Hull No. | Commission– Decommission |
Fate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROCS Kang Ding | FFG-1202 | May 24, 1996- | ||
| ROCS Si Ning | FFG-1203 | September 15, 1996- | ||
| ROCS Gwong Zau | FFG-1204 | November 23, 1996- | ||
| ROCS Wu Chang | FFG-1205 | February 26, 1997- | ||
| ROCS Di Hua | FFG-1206 | August 14, 1997- | ||
| ROCS Kun Ming | FFG-1207 | December 16, 1997- | ||
| ROCS Chen De | FFG-1208 | December 30, 1997- | ||
| ROCS Liao Yuan | FFG-1209 | January 16, 1998- |
