Republic of China Navy frigates ROCS Chenggung and ROCS Jiguang at dock on June 24th, 2005.
The Chenggong-class guided missile frigates are a class of warship in service in the Republic of China Navy from the 1990s onwards. They were named for famous Chinese generals.
Specifications[]
- Type: Guided Missile Frigate
- Service Period: 1993-Present
- Characteristics:
- Length: 485 feet (147.83 meters)
- Beam: 47 feet (14.33 meters)
- Draft: 22 feet (6.71 meters)
- Displacement: 5,140 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 235
- Propulsion: 2 x General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 x SEMT-Pielstick 20PA6 V280 diesel engine, 2 x shafts, 59,000 shp
- Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,334 kilometers) at 20 knots (37.04 km/h)
- Speed: 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- Ericsson Sea Giraffe HC 150 G-Band Air/Surface Search RDF
- Raytheon Pathfinder Mark II Ka-band Navigation RDF
- ATI Technologies 9LV-Mark 5 Combat Management System
- Saab CEROS 200 X-Band Fire Control RDF
- Sperry Sea Archer 30 Optronic Sureveillance/Director
- Thales Sirius Infrared Search and Tracking System
- Thales Type 2050 Bow ASDIC
- ATI Technologies CANTASS II Passive Towed Array ASDIC
- Countermeasures:
- Thales Scorpion ECM Suite
- Ultra Electronics UAF-1 ESM Jammer
- Type 2070 Towed Torpedo Decoy System
- Rheinmetall Multi-Ammunition Softkill System
- Nulka Active Missile Decoy System
- Armament:
- 1 x 5"/64-caliber naval gun
- 2 × Bofors 40mm/L70 guns
- 1 x 32-cell VLS (fires GWS.27 Sea Wolf Mk.III AAMs, GWS.31 Sea Dart II AAMs, and Hsiung Feng IIE cruise missiles)
- 4 x 8-cell VLS (fires Sea Bow AAMs)
- 2 x 4-cannister missile launchers (fires Hsiung Feng II anti-ship missiles)
- 1 x Thales Nederland 30mm Goalkeeper CIWS
- 2 x 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes (fires Sting Ray ASW torpedoes)
- Aircraft Carried: 1 x Agusta-Westland Merlin maritime helicopter
- Aviation Facilities: Flight Deck and Enclosed Hangar
Unit Run[]
- ROCS Chenggung (FM 1101)
- ROCS Sun Tzu (FM 1102)
- ROCS Zheng He (FM 1103)
- ROCS Sun Liren (FM 1104)
- ROCS Jiguang (FM 1105)
- ROCS Yue Fei (FM 1106)
- ROCS Ziyi (FM 1107)
- ROCS Ban Chao (FM 1108)
- ROCS Zhang Qian (FM 1109)
- ROCS Tian Dan (FM 1110)