USS Scott (DDG-995)
{{Short description|United States Navy (DDG-995)}}
{{other ships|USS Scott}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=USS Scott DDG-995.jpg |Ship caption= USS Scott underway on 21 March 1986 }} {{Infobox ship career |Ship country=United States | Ship flag = {{USN flag|1998}} |Ship name= Scott |Ship namesake= Norman Scott |Ship builder=*Ingalls Shipbuilding | Ship laid down = 12 February 1979 | Ship launched = 1 March 1980 | Ship acquired = 8 September 1981 | Ship commissioned = 24 October 1981 | Ship decommissioned = 10 December 1998 | Ship struck = 10 December 1998 | Ship identification =*Callsign: NJSP
| Ship nickname = | Ship badge ={{Dodseal|DDG-995|150}} | Ship honours = |Ship fate=Sold to Taiwan, 30 May 2003; commissioned as {{ship|ROCS|Kee Lung|DDG-1801}} | Ship notes = }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Ship class={{sclass|Kidd|destroyer|1}} |Ship displacement=9,783 tons full |Ship length= 171.6 m (563 ft) |Ship beam = 16.8 m (55 ft) |Ship draft = 9.6 m (31.5 ft) |Ship propulsion=4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, {{convert|80000|shp|abbr=on}} total |Ship speed=33 knots (61 km/h) |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship complement=*31 officers
|Ship time to activate= |Ship sensors=*AN/SPS-48E 3D air search radar
|Ship EW=AN/SLQ-32(V)3 |Ship ASW=MK 116 Mod 2 UBFCS |Ship armament=*2 × Mark 26 RIM-66 Standard missile launchers
|Ship aircraft=*1 × SH-3 Sea King or
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USS Scott (DDG-995) was a {{sclass|Kidd|destroyer}} of the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Norman Scott, who was killed during a surface action at the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (sometimes referred to as the Battle of Friday the 13th) aboard USS Atlanta, receiving a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions.
Originally named Nader, Scott was ordered by the Shah of Iran, but was undelivered at the time of the Iranian Revolution and the U.S. Navy elected to commission her and her sister ships for service in the Persian Gulf. The destroyers were equipped with heavy-duty air conditioning and were also well suited to filtering sand and the results from NBC warfare. She was commissioned in 1981.
Scott completed a major re-fit in Philadelphia in 1988 that focused on upgrading its radar and fire control tracking system.
Scott was decommissioned from the U.S. Navy on 10 December 1998.
Current status
Scott was sold to the Republic of China in 2004, originally to be named Chi Te. However, due to her better storage condition than her sister ships, she became the first Kidd-class vessel to be commissioned by the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) and thus became ROCS Kee Lung (DDG-1801), the lead vessel of the new ROCN Kee Lung-class destroyers.
After almost two years of refit and training in the U.S., the Kee Lung was commissioned on 17 December 2005 at Keelung naval port in northern Taiwan. The ROCN paid just over $690 million for the four Kidd-class destroyers, giving it extensive anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) capabilities.
References
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- {{Naval Vessel Register|{{Naval Vessel Register URL|id=DDG995}}}}
External links
- [http://navysite.de/dd/ddg995.htm Navysite.de page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050521210004/http://www.uss-scott.com/index.html Unofficial site]
{{Kidd class destroyer}}
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Category:Kidd-class destroyers