Guided-missile destroyer

USS Jack H. Lucas

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

Australian HMAS Brisbane

Royal Australian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

  • River-class destroyer (15 planned)
    • HMCS Fraser
    • HMCS Saint-Laurent
    • HMCS Mackenzie

Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy

Type 055 destroyer of the People's Liberation Army Navy
Type 052D destroyer in the People's Liberation Army Navy
  • Type 052D (Luyang III-class) destroyer
    • Kunming (DDG-172)
    • Changsha (DDG-173)
    • Hefei (DDG-174)
    • Yinchuan (DDG-175)
    • Xining (DDG-117)
    • Xiamen (DDG-154)
    • Ürümqi (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)
    • Shaoxing (DDG-134)
    • Jiaozuo (DDG-163)
    • Zhuhai (DDG-157)
  • Type 052C (Luyang II-class) destroyer
    • Lanzhou (DDG-170)
    • Haikou (DDG-171)
    • Changchun (DDG-150)
    • Zhengzhou (DDG-151)
    • Jinan (DDG-152)
    • Xi'an (DDG-153)
  • Type 052B (Luyang I-class) destroyer
    • Guangzhou (DDG-168)
    • Wuhan (DDG-169)
  • Type 051C (Luzhou-class) destroyer
    • Shenyang (DDG-115)
    • Shijiazhuang (DDG-116)
  • Type 051B (Luhai-class) destroyer
    • Shenzhen (DDG-167)
  • Sovremenny-class destroyer
    • Hangzhou (DDG-136)
    • Fuzhou (DDG-137)
    • Taizhou (DDG-138)
    • Ningbo (DDG-139)

Republic of China Navy

ROCS Tso Ying

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

  • Project 18-class destroyer (planned)
  • Visakhapatnam-class destroyer
    • INS Visakhapatnam (D-66)
    • INS Mormugao (D-67)
    • INS Imphal (D-68)
    • INS Surat (D-69)
Indian Navy destroyers sailing in unison

Italian Navy

Destroyer Caio Duilio of the Italian Navy

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

The Japanese guided-missile destroyer Maya

Korean People's Navy

  • Choe Hyon-class destroyer
    • Choe Hyon (DDG-51)

Republic of Korea Navy

ROKS Yulgok Yi I

Royal Navy

HMS Duncan

Russian Navy

Admiral Vinogradov, an Udaloy-class destroyer

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)

Turkish Navy

  • TF2000-class destroyer (planned, 8 ships to be built)

United States Navy

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

Former classes

 Australia

 Canada

 France

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

 Germany

 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

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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