USS Chung-Hoon

USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer serving in the United States Navy (USN).

The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on 6 March 1998, and her keel was laid down on 14 January 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated.

In October 2005 while operating 360 nautical miles (670 km) northeast of Kahului, Chung-Hoon responded to a distress call from the bulk freighter C-Laurel.

[14] On 3 June 2023, People's Liberation Army Navy warship Suzhou cut across the bow of Chung-Hoon while it was transiting the Taiwan Strait together with HMCS Montréal; the closest point of approach was 150 yards (140 m).

[16] In the novel 2034, written by Eliiot Ackerman and Admiral James G. Stavridis, Chung-Hoon is one of two US ships sunk in a naval battle that sparks World War III.

A Chinese warship cut across the bow of Chung-Hoon on 3 June 2023