Guided-missile destroyer

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The Japanese guided-missile destroyer JDS Kongō (DDG-173) firing a Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile

A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a destroyer designed to launch anti-aircraft 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 in their hull pennant numbering, either prefixing or dropping it altogether.

In addition to the guns, 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 for navies that no longer operate cruisers, so other vessels must be adopted to fill in the gap.

Active and planned guided-missile destroyers[]

Australian HMAS Brisbane

Royal Australian Navy[]

  • Hobart-class destroyer
    • HMAS Hobart (DDG-39)
    • HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41)
    • HMAS Sydney (DDG-42)

Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy[]

  • Type 055 (Renhai-class) destroyer
    • Nanchang (DDG-101)
    • Lhasa (DDG-102)
    • Dalian (DDG-105)
    • (DDG-103)
    • Innominate 5th ship (Fitting out)
    • Innominate 6th ship (Fitting out)
    • Innominate 7th ship (Fitting out)
    • Innominate 8th ship (Fitting out)
Type 055 destroyer The largest and most advanced surface warship 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)
    • 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)
    • (DDG-124)
    • (DDG-164)
    • (DDG-133)
    • (DDG-165) (Fitting out)
    • (DDG-134) (Sea trial)
    • (DDG-163) (Sea trial)
    • (DDG-157) (Sea trial)
Type 052D destroyer in the People's Liberation Army Navy

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.

  • Horizon class (in France designated as frigate, designated as destroyers using NATO classification)
    • Forbin (D620)
    • Chevalier Paul (D621)

Indian Navy[]

Indian Navy destroyers sailing in unison.
Commissioning of INS Kochi
Indian Navy Kolkata-class destroyer the INS Kochi

Italian Navy[]

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force[]

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)

Russian Navy[]

Nastoychivyy (610), a Sovremenny-class destroyer
Admiral Vinogradov (572), an Udaloy-class destroyer
  • Sovremenny-class destroyer
    • Bystryy (715)
    • Burnyy (778)
    • 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[]

ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)
  • 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)

Royal Navy[]

Spanish Navy[]

United States Navy[]

Zumwalt-class destroyer
  • 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) (Under construction)
    • USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) （Fitting out）
    • USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120) (Under construction)
    • USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) （Fitting out）
    • USS John Basilone (DDG-122) (Contract awarded)
    • USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) (Under construction)
    • USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG-124) (Contract awarded)
    • USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) (Contract awarded)
    • USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG-126) (Contract awarded)
    • USS Gallagher (DDG-127) (Contract awarded)
    • USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128) (Approved for construction)
    • USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129) (Approved for construction)
    • USS William Charette (DDG-130) (Approved for construction)
    • USS George M. Neal (DDG-131) (Approved for construction)
    • USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132) (Approved for construction)
    • USS Sam Nunn (DDG-133) (Approved for construction)
    • USS John E. Kilmer (DDG-134) (Approved for construction)
    • Innominate 85th ship (DDG-135) (Approved for construction)
    • Innominate 86th ship (DDG-136) (Approved for construction)
    • Innominate 87th ship (DDG-137) (Approved for construction)
    • Innominate 88th ship (DDG-138) (Approved for construction)
    • Innominate 89th ship (DDG-139) (Contract awarded)
  • Zumwalt-class destroyer
    • USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000)
    • USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001)
    • USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) (Fitting out)

Former guided-missile destroyer classes[]

 Australia
 Canada
 France
  • These classes of French "frigates" had "D" pennant numbers and were destroyer-sized
  • Suffren-class frigate
  • Tourville-class frigate
 Italy
 Japan
 Soviet Union
 United Kingdom
  • County-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped/sunk)
  • Type 82 destroyer (decommissioned)
  • Type 42 destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
 United States
  • 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.[2]
  • Kidd-class destroyer (sold to Taiwan as Kee Lung-class destroyers)

References[]

  1. ^ "All About the INS Visakhapatnam, Navy's Most Powerful Destroyer". ndtv. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  2. ^ 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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