title: ROCS Ta Kuan
text: # ROCS Ta Kuan
  
  ROCS Ta Kuan (AGS-1601) is a Taiwanese Navy research vessel. Designed to carry out oceanographic and hydrographic research, as well as surveillance activities, the vessel's platform was developed from the Italian ship Alliance built for NATO.
  
  ## Design
  
  She is a sister ship of Alliance and Elettra being been built in between the two.
  
  ## History
  
  Ta Kuan was built at La Spezia, Italy by Fincantieri and was launched in 1995. In 2015 she received a full upgrade from L3 Technologies.
  
  