Guided-missile destroyer

Destroyer equipped with guided missiles
The Japanese guided-missile destroyer JDS Kongō firing a Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile

A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a destroyer whose primary armament is guided missiles so they can provide anti-aircraft warfare screening for the fleet. The NATO standard designation for these vessels is DDG, while destroyers which have a primary gun armament or a small number of anti-aircraft missiles sufficient only for point-defense are designated DD. Nations vary in their use of destroyer D designation in their hull pennant numbering, either prefixing or dropping it altogether.

Guided-missile destroyers are equipped with large missile magazines, with modern examples typically having vertical-launch cells. Some guided-missile destroyers contain integrated weapons systems, such as the United States’ Aegis Combat System, and may be adopted for use in an anti-missile or ballistic-missile defense role. This is especially true for navies that no longer operate cruisers, so other vessels must be adopted to fill in the gap. Many guided-missile destroyers are also multipurpose vessels, equipped to carry out anti-surface operations with surface-to-surface missiles and naval guns, and anti-submarine warfare with torpedoes and helicopters.

Active and planned guided-missile destroyers

Australian HMAS Brisbane

Royal Australian Navy

  • Hobart-class destroyer
    • HMAS Hobart (DDG-39)
    • HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41)
    • HMAS Sydney (DDG-42)

Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy

  • Type 055 (Renhai-class) destroyer
    • Nanchang (DDG-101)
    • La'sa (DDG-102)
    • Dalian (DDG-105)
    • Anshan (DDG-103)
    • Yan'an (DDG-106)
    • Wuxi (DDG-104)
    • Zunyi (DDG-107)
    • Xianyang (DDG-108)
Type 055 destroyer The largest and most advanced surface warship in the People's Liberation Army Navy
Type 052D destroyer in the People's Liberation Army Navy

French Navy

Although the French Navy no longer uses the term "destroyer", the largest frigates are assigned pennant numbers with flag superior "D", which designates destroyer.

  • Horizon class (in France designated as frigate, designated as destroyers using NATO classification)
    • Forbin (D620)
    • Chevalier Paul (D621)

Indian Navy

  • Visakhapatnam-class destroyer
    • INS Visakhapatnam
    • INS Mormugao
    • INS Imphal
    • INS Surat (Fitting out)
Indian Navy destroyers sailing in unison.
Commissioning of INS Kochi
Indian Navy Kolkata-class destroyer the INS Kochi
  • Kolkata-class destroyer
    • INS Kolkata
    • INS Kochi
    • INS Chennai
  • Delhi-class destroyer
    • INS Delhi
    • INS Mysore
    • INS Mumbai
  • Rajput-class destroyer
    • INS Rana
    • INS Ranvir
    • INS Ranvijay
  • Project 18 (planned)

Italian Navy

  • Durand de la Penne-class destroyer
    • Luigi Durand De La Penne (D 560)
    • Francesco Mimbelli (D 561)
  • Horizon class
    • Andrea Doria (D553)
    • Caio Duilio (D554)

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

  • Maya-class destroyer
    • JS Maya (DDG-179)
    • JS Haguro (DDG-180)
  • Atago-class destroyer
    • JS Atago (DDG-177)
    • JS Ashigara (DDG-178)
  • Kongō-class destroyer
    • JS Kongo (DDG-173)
    • JS Kirishima (DDG-174)
    • JS Myoko (DDG-175)
    • JS Chokai (DDG-176)
  • Hatakaze-class destroyer
    • JS Hatakaze (DDG-171)
    • JS Shimakaze (DDG-172)

Republic of Korea Navy

  • Sejong the Great-class destroyer
    • ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991)
    • ROKS Yulgok Yi I (DDG-992)
    • ROKS Seoae Yu Seong-ryong (DDG-993)
  • KDDX-class destroyer (planned)

Russian Navy

Nastoychivyy (610), a Sovremenny-class destroyer
Admiral Vinogradov (572), an Udaloy-class destroyer

Republic of China Navy

ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
  • Kee Lung-class destroyer (ex-Kidd class)
    • ROCS Kee Lung (DDG-1801)
    • ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802)
    • ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
    • ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805)

Royal Navy

Spanish Navy

  • Álvaro de Bazán class (in Spain designated as frigate, designated as destroyers using NATO classification)
    • Álvaro de Bazán (F101)
    • Almirante Juan de Borbón (F102)
    • Blas de Lezo (F103)
    • Méndez Núñez (F104)
    • Cristóbal Colón (F105)

United States Navy

Zumwalt-class destroyer
  • Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
    • USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
    • USS Barry (DDG-52)
    • USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)
    • USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54)
    • USS Stout (DDG-55)
    • USS John S. McCain (DDG-56)
    • USS Mitscher (DDG-57)
    • USS Laboon (DDG-58)
    • USS Russell (DDG-59)
    • USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60)
    • USS Ramage (DDG-61)
    • USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62)
    • USS Stethem (DDG-63)
    • USS Carney (DDG-64)
    • USS Benfold (DDG-65)
    • USS Gonzalez (DDG-66)
    • USS Cole (DDG-67)
    • USS The Sullivans (DDG-68)
    • USS Milius (DDG-69)
    • USS Hopper (DDG-70)
    • USS Ross (DDG-71)
    • USS Mahan (DDG-72)
    • USS Decatur (DDG-73)
    • USS McFaul (DDG-74)
    • USS Donald Cook (DDG-75)
    • USS Higgins (DDG-76)
    • USS O'Kane (DDG-77)
    • USS Porter (DDG-78)
    • USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79)
    • USS Roosevelt (DDG-80)
    • USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81)
    • USS Lassen (DDG-82)
    • USS Howard (DDG-83)
    • USS Bulkeley (DDG-84)
    • USS McCampbell (DDG-85)
    • USS Shoup (DDG-86)
    • USS Mason (DDG-87)
    • USS Preble (DDG-88)
    • USS Mustin (DDG-89)
    • USS Chafee (DDG-90)
    • USS Pinckney (DDG-91)
    • USS Momsen (DDG-92)
    • USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93)
    • USS Nitze (DDG-94)
    • USS James E. Williams (DDG-95)
    • USS Bainbridge (DDG-96)
    • USS Halsey (DDG-97)
    • USS Forrest Sherman (DDG-98)
    • USS Farragut (DDG-99)
    • USS Kidd (DDG-100)
    • USS Gridley (DDG-101)
    • USS Sampson (DDG-102)
    • USS Truxtun (DDG-103)
    • USS Sterett (DDG-104)
    • USS Dewey (DDG-105)
    • USS Stockdale (DDG-106)
    • USS Gravely (DDG-107)
    • USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108)
    • USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109)
    • USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110)
    • USS Spruance (DDG-111)
    • USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112)
    • USS John Finn (DDG-113)
    • USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114)
    • USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115)
    • USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116)
    • USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117)
    • USS Daniel Inouye (DDG-118)
    • USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119)
    • USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120)
    • USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121)
    • USS John Basilone (DDG-122) (Launched)
    • USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123)
    • USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG-124) (Under construction)
    • USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125)
    • USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG-126) (Under construction)
    • USS Gallagher (DDG-127) (Under construction)
    • USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128) (Launched)
    • USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129) (Under construction)
    • USS William Charette (DDG-130) (Under construction)
    • USS George M. Neal (DDG-131) (Under construction)
    • USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132) (Under construction)
    • USS Sam Nunn (DDG-133) (Under construction)
    • USS John E. Kilmer (DDG-134) (Approved for construction)
    • USS Thad Chochran (DDG-135) (Approved for construction)
    • USS Richard G. Lugar (DDG-136) (Approved for construction)
    • USS John F. Lehman (DDG-137) (Approved for construction)
    • USS J. William Middendorf (DDG-138) (Approved for construction)
    • USS Telesforo Trinidad (DDG-139) (Approved for construction)
    • USS Thomas G. Kelley (DDG-140) (Approved for construction)
  • Zumwalt-class destroyer
    • USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000)
    • USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001)
    • USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) (Sea trials)
  • DDG(X) (planned)

Former guided-missile destroyer classes

 Australia

  • Perth-class destroyer (decommissioned/sunk as dive wrecks)

 Canada

  • Iroquois-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)

 France

  • These classes of French "frigates" had "D" pennant numbers and were destroyer-sized
  • Suffren-class frigate
  • Tourville-class frigate

 Germany

  • Hamburg-class destroyer (after refit to „Klasse 101A“) (decommissioned/scrapped)
  • Lütjens-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped, except D 186 Mölders preserved as museum ship)

 Italy

  • Impavido-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
  • Audace-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)

 Japan

  • Amatsukaze-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
  • Tachikaze-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)

 Soviet Union

 United Kingdom

 United States

  • Farragut (Coontz)-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
  • Charles F. Adams-class destroyer (all but one sunk for target or scrapped; one reserved for future preservation as museum ship)
  • Ticonderoga-class cruiser was designated as the DDG-47 class in its early development, prior to the United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification, which made it the CG-47 class. The first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer was designated DDG-51, as the hull numbers DDG-47-50 had been used for Ticonderoga-class ships.[1]
  • Kidd-class destroyer (sold to Taiwan as Kee Lung-class destroyers)

References

  1. ^ Friedman 2004, pp. 322–323, 425
  • Friedman, Norman (2004). US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History (Revised ed.). Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-442-3.
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