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Guided-missile destroyer

{{Short description|Destroyer equipped with guided missiles}}

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File:DDG-125 acceptance trials.jpg, the most advanced guided-missile destroyer (DDG) in the world.]]

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 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

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= [[Royal Australian Navy]] =

= [[Royal Canadian Navy]] =

  • {{sclass2|River|destroyer|1||2030s}} (15 planned)
  • HMCS Fraser
  • HMCS Saint-Laurent
  • HMCS Mackenzie

=[[People's Liberation Army Navy|Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy]]=

File:PLANS Nanchang (DDG-101) 20210427.jpg of the People's Liberation Army Navy]]

File:PLANS Guiyang (DDG-119) 20200428.jpg in the People's Liberation Army Navy]]

= [[Republic of China Navy]] =

File:USS Kidd (DDG-993).jpg

= [[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.

= [[Indian Navy]] =

  • {{sclass|Project 18|destroyer|1}} (planned)
  • {{sclass|Visakhapatnam|destroyer|1}}
  • {{INS|Visakhapatnam|D66|6}} (D-66)
  • {{INS|Mormugao|D67|6}} (D-67)
  • {{INS|Imphal|D68|6}} (D-68)
  • {{INS|Surat|D69|6}} (D-69)

File:Indian Navy Destroyers sailing together.jpg

  • {{sclass|Kolkata|destroyer|1}}
  • {{INS|Kolkata}} (D-63)
  • {{INS|Kochi}} (D-64)
  • {{INS|Chennai}} (D-65)
  • {{sclass|Delhi|destroyer|1}}
  • {{INS|Delhi|D61|6}} (D-61)
  • {{INS|Mysore|D60|6}} (D-60)
  • {{INS|Mumbai|D62|6}} (D-62)
  • {{sclass|Rajput|destroyer|1}}
  • {{INS|Rana|D52|6}} (D-52)
  • {{INS|Ranvir|D54|6}} (D-54)
  • {{INS|Ranvijay|D55|6}} (D-55)

= [[Marina Militare|Italian Navy]] =

File:Caio Duilio D554.jpg

= [[Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force]] =

File:JS Maya (DDG-179).jpgese guided-missile destroyer {{JS|Maya|DDG-179|2}}]]

= [[Republic of Korea Navy]] =

File:ROKS Yulgok Yi I (DDG-992) sails during the at-sea phase of RIMPAC 2024.jpg

= [[Royal Navy]] =

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= [[Russian Navy]] =

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= [[Spanish Navy]] =

= [[Turkish Naval Forces|Turkish Navy]] =

  • {{sclass|TF2000|destroyer|1}} (planned, 8 ships to be built)

=[[United States Navy]]=

File:USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) steams through the Mediterranean Sea.jpg

  • {{sclass|Zumwalt|destroyer|1}}
  • {{USS|Zumwalt}} (DDG-1000)
  • {{USS|Michael Monsoor}} (DDG-1001)
  • {{USS|Lyndon B. Johnson}} (DDG-1002) (Sea trials)
  • DDG(X) (planned)

Former classes

{{AUS}}

{{CAN}}

{{FRA}}

  • These classes of French "frigates" had "D" pennant numbers and were destroyer-sized
  • {{sclass|Suffren|frigate|1}}
  • {{sclass|Tourville|frigate|1}}

{{GER}}

  • {{sclass|Hamburg|destroyer|1}} (after refit to „Klasse 101A“) (decommissioned/scrapped)
  • {{sclass|Lütjens|destroyer|1}} (decommissioned/scrapped, except D 186 Mölders preserved as museum ship)

{{ITA}}

  • {{sclass|Impavido|destroyer|1}} (decommissioned/retired)
  • {{sclass|Audace|destroyer|1}} (decommissioned/retired)

{{JPN}}

{{USSR}}

  • {{sclass2|Kotlin|destroyer|1}} (decommissioned/scrapped)
  • {{sclass2|Kildin|destroyer|1}} (decommissioned/scrapped)
  • {{sclass2|Kanin|destroyer|1}} (decommissioned/retired)
  • {{sclass2|Kashin|destroyer|1}} (decommissioned/retired)

{{UK}}

{{USA}}

  • Farragut (Coontz)-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
  • {{sclass|Charles F. Adams|destroyer|1}} (all but one sunk for target or scrapped; one reserved for future preservation as museum ship)
  • {{sclass|Ticonderoga|cruiser|1}} 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 {{sclass|Arleigh Burke|destroyer|1}} was designated DDG-51, as the hull numbers DDG-47-50 had been used for Ticonderoga-class ships.Friedman 2004, pp. 322–323, 425
  • {{sclass|Kidd|destroyer|1}} (sold to Taiwan as Kee Lung-class destroyers)

References

{{Reflist}}

  • {{cite book | last = Friedman | first = Norman | author-link = Norman Friedman | title = US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History | publisher = Naval Institute Press | year = 2004 | location = Annapolis | isbn = 1-55750-442-3 | edition = Revised }}

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Category:Destroyers