Guided missile destroyer
The Japanese guided missile destroyer JDS Kongō (DDG-173) firing a Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile.
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 which store the missiles for the ship, usually in Vertical Launch Cells. Some guided missile destroyers contain powerful weapon system radars, like the United States’ Aegis Combat System, and may be adopted for use in an anti-missile role or a 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 (GM) destroyers
Royal Australian Navy
- Hobart Class destroyer
- HMAS Hobart (Under construction - 39?)
- HMAS Brisbane (Under construction - 41?)
- HMAS Sydney (Under construction)
HMCS Iroquois (DDG-280), an Iroquois class destroyer
Royal Canadian Navy
- Iroquois class destroyer
- HMCS Iroquois (DDG-280)
- HMCS Athabaskan (DDG-282)
- HMCS Algonquin (DDG-283)
People's Liberation Army Navy of China
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Kunming (D172), a Chinese Type 052D destroyer
- Type 052D class destroyer
- Kunming (172)
- (173?) (Under construction)
- Type 052C (Luyang II) class destroyer
- Lanzhou (170)
- Haikou (171)
- Changchun (150)
- Zhengzhou (151)
- Jinan (152)
- (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
Forbin (D620), a Horizon class destroyer
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.
- Horizon class frigate
- Forbin (D620)
- Chevalier Paul (D621)
- Cassard class frigate
- Georges Leygues class frigate
- Dupleix (D641)
- Montcalm (D642)
- Jean de Vienne (D643)
- Primauguet (D644)
- La Motte Picquet (D645)
- Latouche-Tréville (D646)
- Aquitaine class frigate
Indian Navy
INS Kolkata (D63), a Kolkata-class destroyer
- Visakhapatnam-class destroyers (Under construction)
- Kolkata-class destroyers
- INS Kolkata
- INS Kochi
- INS Chennai
- Delhi-class destroyers
- Rajput-class destroyers
Islamic Republic of Iranian Navy
Jamaran, Moudge class destroyer
Italian Navy
Caio Duilio (D554), an Orizzonte class destroyer
- 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
JDS Ashigara (DDG-178), an Atago class destroyer
- Hatakaze class destroyer
- JDS Hatakaze (DDG-171)
- JDS Shimakaze (DDG-172)
- Kongō class destroyer
- JDS Kongō (DDG-173)
- JDS Kirishima (DDG-174)
- JDS Myōkō (DDG-175)
- JDS Chōkai (DDG-176)
- Atago class destroyer
- JDS Atago (DDG-177)
- JDS Ashigara (DDG-178)
Russian Navy
Nastoychivyy (610), a Sovremenny class destroyer
- 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)
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ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
Spanish Navy
Republic of China Navy (Taiwan)
- Kee Lung (Kidd) class destroyer
- ROCS Kee Lung (DDG-1801)
- ROCS Su Ao (DDG-1802)
- ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
- ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805)
Republic of Korea Navy
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ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991), a Sejong the Great class destroyer
- 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
HMS Daring (D32), a Type 45 destroyer
- Type 82 destroyer
- HMS Bristol (D23 - now as training ship)
- Type 45 destroyer
- HMS Daring (D32)
- HMS Dauntless (D33)
- HMS Diamond (D34)
- HMS Dragon (D35)
- HMS Defender (D36)
- HMS Duncan (D37)
United States Navy
Artist rendering of the Zumwalt-class destroyer
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USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), an Arleigh Burke class destroyer
- Zumwalt class destroyer
- USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) (Under construction)
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
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