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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 is 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. The U.S. Navy has adopted the classification DDG in the American hull classification system.

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

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)
    • Innominate 2nd ship (Sea trials)
    • Innominate 3rd ship (Fitting out)
    • Innominate 4th ship (Fitting out)
    • Innominate 5th ship (Under construction)
    • Innominate 6th ship (Under construction)
    • Innominate 7th ship (Under construction)
    • Innominate 8th ship (Under construction)
  • 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)
    • Nanjing (DDG-155)
    • Guiyang (DDG-119)
    • Hohhot (DDG-161)
    • Taiyuan (DDG-131)
    • Chengdu (DDG-120)
    • Qiqihar (DDG-121)
    • Tangshan (DDG-122)
    • Zibo (DDG-132) (Fitting out)
    • Ganzhou (DDG-162) (Fitting out)
    • Huainan (Fitting out)
    • Nanning (Fitting out)
    • Baotou (Fitting out)
    • Suzhou (Fitting out)
    • Innominate 21st ship (Under construction)
    • Innominate 22nd ship (Under construction)
    • Innominate 23rd ship (Under construction)
    • Innominate 24th ship (Under construction)
    • Innominate 25th ship (Contract awarded)
    • Innominate 26th ship (Contract awarded)
  • 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 (DD-167)
  • Sovremenny-class destroyer
    • Hangzhou (DDG-136)
    • Fuzhou (DDG-137)
    • Taizhou (DDG-138)
    • Ningbo (DDG-139)

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

  • Visakhapatnam-class destroyer
    • INS Visakhapatnam (D66) (Fitting out)[1]
    • INS Mormugao (D67) (Fitting out)[2]
    • INS Imphal (D68) (Fitting out)
    • INS Porbandar (D69) (Under construction)
INS Kolkata of the Indian Navy during Malabar 2020 naval exercise.
Commissioning of INS Kochi
Indian Navy Kolkata-class destroyer the INS Kochi

Italian Navy

  • Durand de la Penne-class destroyer
    • Luigi Durand De La Penne (D 560)
    • Francesco Mimbelli (D 561)

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

  • Maya-class destroyer
    • JS Maya (DDG-179)
    • JS Haguro (DDG-180) (Fitting out)
  • 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)

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), a Udaloy-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)

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

United States Navy

Zumwalt-class destroyer

Former guided-missile destroyer classes

Australia
  • Perth-class destroyer (decommissioned/sunk as dive wrecks)
Canada
  • Iroquois-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
France
  • These classes of French "frigates" had "D" pennant numbers and were destroyer-sized
  • Suffren-class frigate
  • Tourville-class frigate
Italy
  • Impavido-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
  • Audace-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
Japan
Soviet Union
  • Kotlin-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
  • Kanin-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
United Kingdom
  • County-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped/sunk)
  • Type 82 destroyer (decommissioned)
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.[3]
  • Kidd-class destroyer (sold to Taiwan as Kee Lung-class destroyers)

References

  1. ^ "Indigenously built warship ready for launch". freepressjournal. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  2. ^ "All About the INS Visakhapatnam, Navy's Most Powerful Destroyer". ndtv. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
  3. ^ 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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