As in the case of the Spruances, however, delivery of the more cost-effective Arleigh Burkes shortened the Kidds’ US Navy careers. They were decommissioned in 1997–99, when it appeared Greece might acquire them to replace its four ex-Charles F. Adams-class destroyers until it declined in November 1999. Following Congressional authorization in 2001, however, the four Kidds were reactivated, upgraded and recommissioned in 2005–06 as the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy’s Kee Lung class: Kee Lung (ex-Scott), Su Ao (ex-Callaghan), Tso Ying (ex-Kidd) and Ma Kong (ex-Chandler). They remain in commission today.