ROCS Pan Chao

History
Taiwan
Name	ROCS Pan Chao
Namesake	Ban Chao (班超)
Builder	China Shipbuilding Corp., Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
Laid down	25 July 1995
Launched	3 July 1997
Commissioned	16 December 1997
Identification	PFGS-1108
Status	ship in active service
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass-
Displacement	4,103 tons full
Length	453 ft (138 m)
Beam	46.95 ft (14.31 m)
Propulsion	General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 40,000 shp (30,000 kW) total
Speed	29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph)
Complement	18 officers 180 enlisted 19 flight crew
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPS-49 air search radar SPS-55 surface search radar CAS, STIR gun fire control radar SQS-56 sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32(V)5 (AN/SLQ-32(V)2 + SIDEKICK)
Armament	40 × SM-1MR at Mk 13 Missile Launcher 4 × Hsiung Feng II and 4 HF-3 supersonic AShM 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun 2 × Bofors 40mm/L70mm guns 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × triple Mark 32 ASW torpedo tubes with Mark 46 anti-submarine torpedoes
Aircraft carried	Sikorsky S-70C-1/2

ROCS Pan Chao (班超, PFG2-1108) is the sixth of eight Taiwanese-built Template:Sclass-s of the Republic of China Navy, based on the United States Template:Sclass-. Laid down in July 1995 and launched in May 1996, Pan Chao was commissioned in December 1997. All of these Taiwanese frigates have the length of the later Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates, but have a different weapon and electronics fit.

Like her sister ships, Pan Chao was built under license by China SB Corp. at Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC.

As of 2005, Pan Chao is homeported at Tso-Ying naval base.

See also

• ROCS Cheng Ho (PFG2-1103)
• ROCS Chi Kuang (PFG2-1105)
• ROCS Tzu I (PFG2-1107)
• ROCS Chang Chien (PFG2-1109)
• ROCS Tian Dan (PFG2-1110)