Originally named Nader, Scott was ordered by the 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 warfare.

Scott completed a major re-fit in Philadelphia in 1988 that focused on upgrading its radar and fire control tracking system.

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.