The Hangzhou-class guided missile destroyers are a class of four destroyers in service in the Republic of China Navy from 1988 onwards. They underwent an extensive midlife update in the late 2000s.
Specifications[]
- Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
- Service Period: 1988-Present
- Characteristics:
- Length: 512 feet (156.06 meters)
- Beam: 62 feet 6 inches (19.05 meters)
- Draft: 22 feet 3 inches (6.79 meters)
- Displacement: 7,150 tons (Standard); 9,160 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 340 (20 officers and 320 enlisted)
- Propulsion: 4 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM3 gas turbines, 2 x shafts, 104,000 shp (78 MW)
- Range: 6,200 nautical miles (11,482 kilometers) at 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
- Speed: 30+ knots (55.56+ km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- (2D Air Search RDF)
- (3D Air Search RDF)
- (Surface Search RDF)
- (Navigation RDF)
- (Fire Control RDF)
- (Hull mounted ASDIC)
- (Towed Array ASDIC)
- Countermeasures:
- (EW System)
- (Electronic Support Measures)
- (Decoys)
- Armament:
- 1 x QF 4.5"/55-caliber Mk.8 naval gun
- 2 x 48-cell VLS (fires Sea Dart AAMs, Sea Wolf AAMs, Orca ASW missiles, and Storm Wind cruise missiles)
- 2 x 4-cannister Hsiung Feng II AShM Launchers)
- 4 x 8-cell CIWS (fires Sea Oryx AAMs)
- 2 x 12.75" triple torpedo tubes (fires Hóngzūn lightweight torpedoes)
- Aircraft Carried: 2 x Westland Lynx maritime helicopters
- Aviation Facilities: Enclosed Hangar and Flight Deck
Unit Run[]
- ROCS Hangzhou (DM 1807)
- ROCS Fuzhou (DM 1808)
- ROCS Taizhou (DM 1809)
- ROCS Ningbo (DM 1810)