USS Kidd (DDG-993)

1981-1998

Later ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)

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DDG · Guided-Missile Destroyer

Call Sign:	NKID
Shipyard:	Ingalls Shipbuilding

Kidd class

Timeline

Date	Event
Mar 23, 1978	Ordered	for Iran as Kouroush
Jun 26, 1978	Laid down
1979		embargoed
Aug 11, 1979	Launched
Mar 27, 1981	Commissioned
Mar 12, 1998	Decommissioned
1999		Rejected by Australia
May 30, 2003	Fate: transfered	to Taiwan as ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)