Missing image USS_Chandler_(DDG-996).jpg USS Chandler
Career
Yard:	Litton Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Awarded:	March 23, 1978
Laid down:	May 7, 1979
Launched:	June 28, 1980
Commissioned:	March 13, 1982
Decommissioned:	September 23, 1999
Fate:	Sold to Taiwan
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,783 tons full
Length:	171.6 m (563 ft)
Beam:	16.8 m (55 ft)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 80,000 shp total
Speed:	33 knots (60.8 km/h)
Complement:	? officers ? enlisted
Armament:	2 × Mark 26 Standard missile launchers 2 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 8 × AGM-84 Harpoon 2 × Mark 15 20mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mark 45 5 inch 54 cal gun 2 × Mark 32 triple tube mounts with 6 × Mark 46 torpedoes 1 × Mark 112 ASROC launcher
Sensors:	SPS-48E air search radar SPG-60 gun fire control radar SPS-55 surface search radar SPQ-9A gun fire control radar SQS-53 sonar SLQ-32(V)3 Outboard II
Aircraft:	1 × SH-3 Sea King or 2 × SH-2 Seasprite

Derived from the Spruance class, USS Chandler (DDG-996) was the final ship in a class of destroyers operated by the U.S. Navy. Kidd class vessels were designed for air defense in hot weather. The vessel was named after Rear Admiral Theodore E. Chandler

Originally named Andushirvan, Chandler was originally ordered by the Shah of Iran, but was undelivered when the 1979 Iranian Revolution occurred. Subsequent to this, the U.S. Navy elected to commission them for service in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea, as they were equipped with heavy-duty air conditioning and were also well suited to filtering sand and the results from NBC warfare.

Chandler was eventually decommissioned from the U.S. Navy and is in the process of being transferred to the Republic of China. In that service, the vessel will be named Wu Teh (DDG-1805).

External links

Navysite.de page (http://navysite.de/dd/ddg996.htm)

Spruance-class destroyer

Spruance | Paul F. Foster | Kinkaid | Hewitt | Elliot | Arthur W. Radford | Peterson | Caron | David R. Ray | Oldendorf | John Young | Comte de Grasse | O'Brien | Merrill | Briscoe | Stump | Conolly | Moosbrugger | John Hancock | Nicholson | John Rodgers | Leftwich | Cushing | Harry W. Hill | O'Bannon | Thorn | Deyo | Ingersoll | Fife | Fletcher | Hayler

Kidd (Modified Spruance)-class destroyer Kidd | Callaghan | Scott | Chandler

List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy

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