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A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a
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
naval guns, and anti-submarine warfare
with torpedoes and helicopters.
Active and planned guided-missile destroyers
- Hobart-class destroyer
- HMAS Hobart (DDG-39)
- HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41)
- HMAS Sydney (DDG-42)
- Type 052D (Luyang III-class) destroyer
- Kunming (DDG-172)
- Changsha(DDG-173)
- Hefei(DDG-174)
- Yinchuan(DDG-175)
- Xining(DDG-117)
- Xiamen (DDG-154)
- Urumqi (DDG-118)
- Guiyang (DDG-119)
- Nanjing(DDG-155)
- Taiyuan (DDG-131)
- Hohhot (DDG-161)
- Chengdu (DDG-120)
- Qiqihar (DDG-121)
- Zibo (DDG-156)
- Tangshan (DDG-122)
- Suzhou (DDG-132)
- Huainan (DDG-123)
- Nanning (DDG-162)
- Kaifeng (DDG-124)
- Guilin (DDG-164)
- Baotou (DDG-133)
- Zhenjiang (DDG-165) (Fitting out)
- Shaoxing (DDG-134) (Sea trials)
- Jiaozuo (DDG-163) (Sea trials)
- Zhuhai (DDG-157) (Sea trials)
- Type 052C (Luyang II-class) destroyer
- Type 052B (Luyang I-class) destroyer
- Type 051C (Luzhou-class) destroyer
- Shenyang (DDG-115)
- Shijiazhuang (DDG-116)
- Type 051B (Luhai-class) destroyer
- Shenzhen (DDG-167)
- Sovremenny-class destroyer
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)
- Durand de la Penne-class destroyer
- Luigi Durand De La Penne (D 560)
- Francesco Mimbelli (D 561)
- Horizon class
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
- Maya-class destroyer
- 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)
- 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)
- Sovremenny-class destroyer
- Burny (778)
- Nastoychivy (610)
- Admiral Ushakov (434)
- Udaloy-class destroyer
- Vice-Admiral Kulakov (626)
- Admiral Tributs (564)
- Marshal Shaposhnikov(543)
- Severomorsk (619)
- Admiral Levchenko (605)
- Admiral Vinogradov (572)
- Admiral Panteleyev (548)
- Admiral Chabanenko (650)
- 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)
- Type 45 destroyer
- Type 83 destroyer (planned)
- Álvaro de Bazán class (in Spain designated as frigate, designated as destroyers using NATO classification)
- 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
- DDG(X) (planned)
Former guided-missile destroyer classes
- Perth-class destroyer (decommissioned/sunk as dive wrecks)
- Iroquois-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
- These classes of French "frigates" had "D" pennant numbers and were destroyer-sized
- Suffren-class frigate
- Tourville-class frigate
- Hamburg-class destroyer (after refit to „Klasse 101A“) (decommissioned/scrapped)
- Lütjens-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped, except D 186 Mölders preserved as museum ship)
- Impavido-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
- Audace-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
- Amatsukaze-class destroyer(decommissioned/retired)
- Tachikaze-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
- Kotlin-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
- Kanin-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
- County-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped/sunk)
- Type 82 destroyer (decommissioned)
- Type 42 destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
- 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
- ^ Friedman 2004, pp. 322–323, 425
- ISBN 1-55750-442-3.