Guided missile destroyer
A guided-missile destroyer is a destroyer designed to launch guided missiles. Many are also equipped to carry out anti-submarine, anti-air, and anti-surface operations. The NATO standard designation for these vessels is DDG. Nations vary in their use of destroyer D designation their hull pennant numbering, either prefixing, or dropping it altogether. The U.S. Navy has adopted the classification DDG in the American hull classification system.
In addition to the guns that destroyers have, a guided-missile destroyer is usually equipped with two large missile magazines, usually in vertical-launch cells. Some guided-missile destroyers contain powerful radar 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 of navies that no longer operate cruisers, as other vessels must be adopted to fill in the gap.
Active and planned guided missile destroyers
Royal Australian Navy
- Hobart-class destroyer
- HMAS Hobart (Under construction – D39?)
- HMAS Brisbane (Under construction – D41?)
- HMAS Sydney (Under construction)
Royal Canadian Navy
People's Liberation Army Navy of China
- Type 055 destroyer (under construction)
- Type 052D destroyer
- Kunming (172)
- Changsha (173)
- Hefei (174)
- Yinchuan (175) (Sea trial)
- (117) (Sea trial)
- (118) (Fitting out)
- (119) (Fitting out)
- (120) (Fitting out)
- (154) (Under construction)
- (155) (Under construction)
- Type 052C (Luyang II class) destroyer
- Lanzhou (170)
- Haikou (171)
- Changchun (150)
- Zhengzhou (151)
- Jinan (152)
- Xi'an (153)
- Type 052B (Luyang I class) destroyer
- Guangzhou (168)
- Wuhan (169)
- Type 052 (Luhu class) destroyer
- Harbin (112)
- Qingdao (113)
- Type 051C (Luzhou class) destroyer
- Shenyang (115)
- Shijiazhuang (116)
- Type 051B (Luhai class) destroyer
- Shenzhen (167)
- Type 051 (Luda class) destroyer
- Xining (108)
- Kaifeng (109)
- Dalian (110)
- Chongqing (133)
- Zunyi (134)
- Nanchang (163)
- Guilin (164)
- Zhanjiang (165)
- Zhuhai (166)
- Sovremenny-class destroyer
- Hangzhou (136)
- Fuzhou (137)
- Taizhou (138)
- Ningbo (139)
French Navy
Although the French Navy no longer uses the term "destroyer" (French: destructeur), the largest frigates are assigned pennant numbers with flag superior "D", which designates destroyer.
Indian Navy
- Visakhapatnam-class destroyer (Under construction)
- INS Visakhapatnam (D66) [1]
- INS Porbandar (D67)
- INS Marmagoa (D68) [2]
- INS Paradip(D69)
- Kolkata-class destroyer
- Delhi-class destroyer
- Rajput-class destroyer
Italian Navy
- Durand de la Penne-class destroyer
- Luigi Durand De La Penne (D560)
- Francesco Mimbelli (D561)
- Orizzonte-class destroyer
- Andrea Doria (D553)
- Caio Duilio (D554)
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
- 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)
- Akizuki class destroyer
- Takanami-class destroyer
Russian Navy
- Kashin-class destroyer
- Smetlivy (810)
- Sovremenny-class destroyer
- Bystryy (715)
- Gremyashchiy (406)
- Bespokoynyy (620)
- Nastoychivyy (610)
- Admiral Ushakov (434)
- Udaloy-class destroyer
- Vice-Admiral Kulakov
- Admiral Tributs (552)
- Marshal Shaposhnikov (543)
- Severomorsk (619)
- Admiral Levchenko (605)
- Admiral Vinogradov (572)
- Admiral Panteleyev (548)
- Admiral Chabanenko (650)
Republic of China Navy (Taiwan)
- 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)
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)
Royal Navy
- Type 82 destroyer
- HMS Bristol (D23) (now as training ship)
- Type 45 destroyer
United States Navy
- Zumwalt-class destroyer
- USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) (Began sea trials 12/7/15)
- 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)
Former guided missile destroyer classes
- These classes of French "frigates" had "D" pennant numbers and were destroyer-sized
- Suffren-class frigate
- Tourville-class frigate
- 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 42 destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
- Farragut (Coontz)-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
- Charles F. Adams-class destroyer (all but one sunk for target or scrapped; 1 reserved for future preservation as museum ship)
- The 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.[3]
- Kidd-class destroyer (sold to Taiwan as Kee Lung-class destroyers)
References
- ↑ "Indigenously built warship ready for launch". freepressjournal. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
- ↑ "All About the INS Visakhapatnam, Navy's Most Powerful Destroyer". ndtv. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ↑ Friedman 2004, pp. 322-323, 425
- Friedman, Norman (2004). US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History (Revised Edition). Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-442-3.
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