Kidd-class Guided Missile Destroyer

The Kouroush/Kidd/Ontario-class Guided Missile Destroyers are a class of destroyer in service in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command from 1981 to 2026. Originally, the Kidd-class was intended to be used in the Imperial Iranian Navy, however because of the of arms embargo after the Iranian Revolution, the Kidd-class destroyers were sold to Canada for 550 million dollars in 1980. In 2001, the Taiwanese government ordered six Kidd-class guided missile destroyers for their navy. In 2008, the Iranian government ordered six Kidd-class destroyers from the United States as part of the end of the arms embargo. In 2010, the Kidd-class underwent an extensive overhaul and upgrade to allow it to serve into the 2020s.
==Specifications==
===Original Configuration===
*Type: Guided Missile Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DDG)
*Characteristics
**Length: 563 feet (171.6 meters)
**Beam: 55 feet (16.77 meters)
**Draught: 32.8 feet (10 meters)
**Displacement (Light): 7,289 tons (7,174 long tons; 8,035 short tons)
**Displacement (Loaded): 9,783 tons (9,628 long tons; 10,784 short tons)
*Crew: 363 (31 officers and 332 enlisted)
*Propulsion: 4 x General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts: 80,000 shp (40 MW)
*Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph); 3,300 nautical miles (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
*Speed: 33 Knots (61.12 Kilometers/Hour; 37.98 Miles/Hour)
*Sensor Suite/Electronic Countermeasures
**AN/SPS-48E 3D Air Search Radar
**AN/SPS-49(V)5 2D Air Search Radar
**AN/SPS-55 Surface Search Radar
**AN/SPS-64(V)9 Navigation Radar
**AN/SPQ-9A Gun Fire Control Radar
**AN/SPG-60 Gun Fire Control Radar
**AN/SQS-53A Hull mounted Sonar
*Countermeasures:
**AN/SLQ-32(V)2-5 Electronic Warfare Suite
**AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo countermeasures suite
**MK.36 SBROC decoy launchers
*Armament
**2 x Mark 45 Mod 0 5"/54-caliber naval gun
**2 x Mark 26 twin-arm missile launcher (fires RIM-66 Standard)
**2 x Mark 141 armoured box launchers (fires UGM-84 Harpoon)
**2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 cannons
**2 x Mark 32 triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (Mark 46 torpedoes)
**1 x Mark 112 8-cell ASROC Launcher
*Aircraft Carried: 1 x CH-124 Sea King (replaced by CH-148 Cyclone)
===2010 Configuration===
*Type: Guided Missile Destroyer (Hull designation symbol DDG)
*Characteristics
**Length: 563 feet (171.6 meters)
**Beam: 55 feet (16.77 meters)
**Draught: 32.8 feet (10 meters)
**Displacement: 7,200 tons (Light); 9,800 tons (Full Load)
*Crew: 278 (30 officers and 248 enlisted)
*Propulsion: 4 Vektris Engineering (license-built GE) LM2500+ gas turbines, 2 shafts: 150,000 shp
*Range: 6,400 nautical miles at 20 knots
*Speed: 35 Knots (64.82 km/h)
*Sensor Suite:
**System 025A medium-range air search radar
**System 034SCR long-range surface search radar
**AN/SPQ-9B gun fire control and ranging radar
**AN/SPG-62 missile fire control radars
**AN/SQS-525 active variable-depth hull sonar
**AN/SQR-507 passive towed sonar array
**System 050C Integrated Information Transfer System
*Countermeasures:
**AN/SLQ-32(V)6 electronic warfare system
**S2170 Sea Sentor Torpedo Defence System
**Mk 53 Nulka active missile decoy system
*Armament:
**2 x Mk.45 Mod 4 5"/62-caliber naval guns
**2 x Mk.41 64-cell Vertical Launching System (fires 128 BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUR-139 VL-ASROC, RIM-156 Standard II, RIM-161 Standard III, RIM-162 ESSM)
**2 x 35mm Naval Defender CIWS cannons
**1 x Mk.49 Rolling Airframe Missile Launcher (21 RIM-116 missiles plus 84 reloads)
**2 x Mk.32 12.75" triple torpedo tubes (fires Mk.46/50/54 lightweight torpedoes) 
**4 x M2 Browning 12.7mm machine guns
*Aircraft Carried: 1 x CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopter
==Unit Run==
 Name  	 Number  	 Builder  	 Launched  	 Commissioned  	 Home port  	 Status  	 Notes 
Canadian Forces Maritime Command	Canadian Forces Maritime Command	Canadian Forces Maritime Command	Canadian Forces Maritime Command	Canadian Forces Maritime Command	Canadian Forces Maritime Command	Canadian Forces Maritime Command	
HMCS Hudson Bay 	DDG-284 	Ingalls Shipbuilding 	August 11, 1979 	March 27, 1981 	CFB Halifax 	Active 	ex-IIS Koroush, ex-USS Kidd
HMCS James Bay 	DDG-285 	Ingalls Shipbuilding 	December 1, 1979 	August 29, 1981 	CFB Halifax 	Active 	ex-IIS Daryush, ex-USS Callaghan
HMCS Grand Banks 	DDG-286 	Ingalls Shipbuilding 	March 1, 1980 	October 24, 1981 	CFB Esquimalt 	Active 	ex-IIS Nader, ex-USS Scott
HMCS Sable Island 	DDG-287 	Ingalls Shipbuilding 	June 28, 1980 	March 13, 1982 	CFB Esquimalt 	Active 	ex-IIS Anoshirvan, ex-USS Chandler
Republic of China Navy 	Republic of China Navy 	Republic of China Navy 	Republic of China Navy 	Republic of China Navy 	Republic of China Navy 	Republic of China Navy 	
ROCS Kee Lung 	DDG-1801 	China Shipbuilding Corporation 	May 30, 2003 	December 17, 2005 	Su-Ao Naval Base 	Active 	
ROCS Su Ao 	DDG-1802 	China Shipbuilding Corporation 	July 19, 2003 	January 18, 2006 	Su-Ao Naval Base 	Active 	
ROCS Tso Ying 	DDG-1803 	China Shipbuilding Corporation 	December 7, 2003 	May 23, 2006 	Tso Ying Naval Base 	Active 	
ROCS Hsin Chu 	DDG-1804 	Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation 	Janauary 19, 2004 	August 20, 2006 	Kee Lung Naval Base 	Active 	
ROCS Ma Kong 	DDG-1805 	Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation 	February 26, 2004 	July 31, 2006 	Tso Ying Naval Base 	Active 	
ROCS Tai Tung 	DDG-1806 	Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation 	April 13, 2004 	August 19, 2006 	Kee Lung Naval Base 	Active 	
Iranian Navy 	Iranian Navy 	Iranian Navy 	Iranian Navy 	Iranian Navy 	Iranian Navy 	Iranian Navy 	
IRIS Kouroush 	D10 	Defense Industries Organization 	April 17, 2009 	December 30, 2010 	Bandar-e Abbas 	Active 	
IRIS Daryush 	D11 	Defense Industries Organization 	August 27, 2009 	April 30, 2011 	Bandar-e Abbas 	Active 	
IRIS Ardeshir 	D12 	Defense Industries Organization 	December 11, 2009 	August 25, 2011 	Bandar-e Abbas 	Active 	
IRIS Nader 	D13 	Defense Industries Organization 	March 19, 2010 	December 1, 2011 	Bandar-e Abbas 	Active 	
IRIS Shapour 	D14 	Defense Industries Organization 	July 29, 2010 	April 11, 2012 	Bandar-e Abbas 	Active 	
IRIS Anoshirvan 	D15 	Defense Industries Organization 	December 8, 2010 	August 21, 2012 	Bandar-e Abbas 	Active 	
==See Also==
===Related Development===
*Spruance-class
*Ticonderoga-class
===Comparable Vessels===
*Type 43 Admiral-class
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