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DD-996 / DDG-996 USS CHANDLER

CLASS - KIDD As Built.
Displacement 9200 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 563' (oa) x 55' x 20' 6" (Max)
Armament 2 x 5"/54 RF (2x1), 2 Mk 26 Launchers (2x2) 50 SAM, 16 ASROC missiles,
RGM-64(C/D) "Harpoon" anti-ship missile battery (2x4),
2x20mm Phalanx CIWS 6 x 12.75" Mk 32 ASW TT (2x3). 1 Helicopter.
Machinery, 80,000 SHP; 4 LM 2500 Gas Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 30 Knots, Range 6000 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 296.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula Miss. May 7 1979.
Launched May 24 1980 and commissioned March 13 1982.
Built for Iran.
Taken over by the US Navy By Executive order after the fall of the Shah in July 1979.
Reclassified Guided Missile Destroyer DDG-996 August 8 1979.
Decommissioned September 23 1999.
Fate To Taiwan as the DDG-1805 Ma-Kong.

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Chandler 156kUndated, location unknown. Later in her life with the SPS-49 radar installed, part of the New Threat Upgrade (SM-2 MR) package.Keith Baker
Chandler 131kUndated, location unknown.Later in her life with the SPS-49 radar installed, part of the New Threat Upgrade (SM-2 MR) package.Keith Baker
Chandler 223kUndated, location unknown, pre-NTU.Keith Baker
Chandler 109kUndated, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Chandler 94kUndated, location unknown.Robert Hurst
Chandler 95kDN-SN-82-04934. CDR Henry Strickland, front, and Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Mississippi, review the honor guard from the guided missile destroyer USS CHANDLER (DDG-996) prior to the ship's commissioning ceremony. Stennis is the principal speaker and Strickland will assume command. Pascagoula, MS March 13 1982.Bill Gonyo
Chandler 139kDN-ST-82-05228. Part of the crew of the guided missile destroyer USS CHANDLER (DDG-996) mans the rail while others march aboard during commissioning ceremonies. Photo by PH3 Bunnell, March 13 1982.Bill Gonyo
Chandler 101kJuly 1983, location unknown. DAVA photo.Robert M. Cieri
Chandler 78kOctober 1 1983, Pacific Ocean, a port quarter view of the Kidd class guided missile destroyer USS Chandler (DDG 996 ), right, and the Neosho class oiler USNS Kawishiwi (TAO 146) during underway replenishment operations.Fred Weiss
Chandler 63kPostcard Copyright © Marine Photos, October 13 1983 as she stood into San Francisco for Fleet Week.Mike Smolinski
Chandler 39kView from the Golden Gate Bridge October 19 1983 departing Fleet Week.Marc Piché
Chandler 48kView from the Golden Gate Bridge October 11 1986.Marc Piché
Chandler 67kColumbia River June 1988.Marc Piché
Chandler 43kAs above.Marc Piché
Chandler 83kSydney, Australia December 1993.Marc Piché
Chandler 70kFremantle, Australia December 14 1993.Marc Piché
Chandler 114kUnderway during fleet operations in the Eastern Pacific on Sept. 30, 1997.Bill Gonyo
Chandler 106k28 April 2004 at Charleston Naval Shipyard.Sam Stokes
Chandler 80kShip's patchMike Smolinski
On Republic of China Service
Chandler 32kThe former USS Kidd (DDG-993) now Tzuo-Ying (DDG-1803) and USS Chandler (DDG-996) now Ma-Kong (DDG-1805) in the Taiwanese Navy. November 2006, Su-Au Naval Base, in north-eastern Taiwan.John Donnelly
Chandler 36kAs above.John Donnelly
Chandler 30kAs above.John Donnelly

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