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{{Short description|United States Navy (DDG-995)}}
{{other ships|USS Scott}}
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|Ship image=USS Scott DDG-995.jpg
|Ship caption= USS ''Scott'' underway on 21 March 1986
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{{Infobox ship career
|Ship country=United States
| Ship flag = {{USN flag|1998}}
|Ship name= ''Scott''
|Ship namesake= [[Norman Scott (admiral)|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 =*[[Maritime call sign|Callsign]]: NJSP
*{{ICS|November}}{{ICS|Juliett}}{{ICS|Sierra}}{{ICS|Papa}}
*[[Hull number]]: DDG-995
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| Ship badge ={{Dodseal|DDG-995|150}}
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|Ship fate=Sold to [[Taiwan]], 30 May 2003; commissioned as {{ship|ROCS|Kee Lung|DDG-1801}}
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{{Infobox ship characteristics
|Ship class={{sclass|Kidd|destroyer|1}}
|Ship displacement=9,783&nbsp;tons full
|Ship length=             171.6 m (563 ft)
|Ship beam =  &nbsp;       16.8 m (55 ft)
|Ship draft = &nbsp; &nbsp; 9.6 m (31.5 ft)
|Ship propulsion=4 × [[General Electric LM2500|General Electric LM2500-30]] [[gas turbine]]s, {{convert|80000|shp|abbr=on}} total
|Ship speed=33&nbsp;knots (61&nbsp;km/h)
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|Ship endurance=
|Ship test depth=
|Ship boats=
|Ship capacity=
|Ship complement=*31 officers
*332 enlisted
|Ship time to activate=
|Ship sensors=*[[AN/SPS-48]]E 3D [[air search radar]]
*[[AN/SPS-49]] 2D [[air search radar]]
*SPG-60 gun [[fire control radar]]
*[[AN/SPG-51]] missile [[fire control radar]]
*[[AN/SPS-55]] surface search radar
*[[AN/SPQ-9]]A gun fire control radar
*SQS-53 [[sonar]]
*AN/SQR-17A Sonar Signal Processing System [[sonar]]
|Ship EW=[[AN/SLQ-32]](V)3
|Ship ASW=[[MK 116 Mod 2 UBFCS]]
|Ship armament=*2 × Mark 26 [[RIM-66 Standard]] missile launchers
*2 × Mark 141 quad launcher with 8 × [[RGM-84 Harpoon]]
*2 × Mark 15 20&nbsp;mm Phalanx [[CIWS]]
*2 × [[5-54 Mark 45|Mark 45 5&nbsp;in (127&nbsp;mm) / 54 caliber gun]]
*2 × [[Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes|Mark 32 triple tube mounts]] with 6 × [[Mark 46 torpedo]]es
|Ship aircraft=*1 × [[SH-3 Sea King]] or
*2 × [[SH-2 Seasprite]]
|Ship notes=
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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 (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 (CL-51)|USS ''Atlanta'']], receiving a [[Posthumous recognition|posthumous]] [[Medal of Honor]] for his actions.
Originally named ''Nader'', ''Scott'' was ordered by the [[Pahlavi dynasty|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 weapon|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)|ROCS ''Kee Lung'' (DDG-1801)]]''', the lead vessel of the new ROCN [[Kee Lung-class destroyer|''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]
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