Guided-missile destroyer

Guided-missile destroyer

Taiyuan (131), a Type 052D (Luyang III-class) guided-missile destroyer

USS Jack H. Lucas, an Arleigh-Burke-class guided-missile destroyer

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. Most modern destroyers are of the guided-missile type, and they are widely deployed by advanced navies; in particular, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is the most numerous class of warship in the US Navy.

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.

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.

Active and planned

Guided-missile destroyer

Australian HMAS Brisbane

Royal Australian Navy

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

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 055 destroyer (Renhai-class cruiser) • Nanchang (DDG-101) • La'sa (DDG-102) • Dalian (DDG-105) • Anshan (DDG-103) • Yan'an (DDG-106) • Wuxi (DDG-104) • Zunyi (DDG-107) • Xianyang (DDG-108)

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

• 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)

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

• Project 18-class destroyer (planned) • Visakhapatnam-class destroyer • INS Visakhapatnam (D66) • INS Mormugao (D67) • INS Imphal (D68) • INS Surat (D69)

• Kolkata-class destroyer • INS Kolkata (D63) • INS Kochi (D64) • INS Chennai (D65) • Delhi-class destroyer • INS Delhi (D61) • INS Mysore (D60) • INS Mumbai (D62) • Rajput-class destroyer • INS Rana (D52) • INS Ranvir (D54) • INS Ranvijay (D55)

Italian Navy

Destroyer Caio Duilio of the Italian Navy

• Durand de la Penne-class destroyer • Luigi Durand De La Penne (D 560) • Francesco Mimbelli (D 561) • Horizon class • Andrea Doria (D553) • Caio Duilio (D554)

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

The Japanese guided-missile destroyer Maya

• Maya-class destroyer • JS Maya (DDG-179) • JS Haguro (DDG-180) • 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 Shimakaze (DDG-172)

Korean People's Navy

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

Republic of Korea Navy

ROKS Yulgok Yi I

• Sejong the Great-class destroyer • ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991) • ROKS Yulgok Yi I (DDG-992) • ROKS Seoae Ryu Seong-ryong (DDG-993) • ROKS Jeongjo the Great (DDG-995) • KDDX-class destroyer (planned)

Royal Navy

HMS Duncan

• Type 45 destroyer • HMS Daring (D32) • HMS Dauntless (D33) • HMS Diamond (D34) • HMS Dragon (D35) • HMS Defender (D36) • HMS Duncan (D37) • Type 83 destroyer (planned)

Russian Navy

Admiral Vinogradov, an Udaloy-class destroyer

• Sovremenny-class destroyer • Burny (778) • Nastoychivy (610) • Admiral Ushakov (434) • Udaloy-class destroyer • Vice-Admiral Kulakov (626) • Admiral Tributs (564) • Marshal Shaposhnikov (543) • Severomorsk (619) • Admiral Levchenko (605) • Admiral Vinogradov (572) • Admiral Panteleyev (548) • Admiral Chabanenko (650)

Spanish Navy

• F110 Bonifaz class frigate • Bonifaz (F111) • Álvaro de Bazán class F100 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

• 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) • USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) • USS Carl M. Levin (DDG-120) • USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) • USS John Basilone (DDG-122) (Launched) • USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) • USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG-124) (Under construction) • USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) • USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG-126) (Under construction) • USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG-127) (Under construction) • USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128) (Launched) • USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129) (Under construction) • USS William Charette (DDG-130) (Under construction) • USS George M. Neal (DDG-131) (Under construction) • USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132) (Under construction) • USS Sam Nunn (DDG-133) (Under construction) • USS John E. Kilmer (DDG-134) (Approved for construction) • USS Thad Cochran (DDG-135) (Approved for construction) • USS Richard G. Lugar (DDG-136) (Approved for construction) • USS John F. Lehman (DDG-137) (Approved for construction) • USS J. William Middendorf (DDG-138) (Approved for construction) • USS Telesforo Trinidad (DDG-139) (Approved for construction) • USS Thomas G. Kelley (DDG-140) (Approved for construction) • USS Ernest E. Evans (DDG-141) (Approved for construction) • USS Charles Jackson French (DDG-142)(Approved for construction) • USS Richard J. Danzig (DDG-143) (Approved for construction) • USS Michael G. Mullen (DDG-144) (Approved for construction) • USS Intrepid (DDG-145) (Approved for construction) • USS Robert Kerrey (DDG-146) (Approved for construction) • Zumwalt-class destroyer • USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) • USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) • USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) (Sea trials) • DDG(X) (planned)

Former classes

Guided-missile destroyer

• Perth-class destroyer (decommissioned/sunk as dive wrecks)

• Iroquois-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)

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

• Hamburg-class destroyer (after refit to „Klasse 101A“) (decommissioned/scrapped) • Lütjens-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped, except D 186 Mölders preserved as museum ship)

• Impavido-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired) • Audace-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)

• Tariq-class destroyer (decommissioned/sunk as targets) • County-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)

• Amatsukaze-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired) • Tachikaze-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)

• Kotlin-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped) • Kildin-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped) • Kanin-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired) • Kashin-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)

• County-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped/sunk) • Type 82 destroyer (decommissioned) • Type 42 destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)

• Farragut (Coontz)-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped) • Charles F. Adams-class destroyer (all but one sunk for target or scrapped; one reserved for future preservation as museum ship) • 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. • Kidd-class destroyer (sold to Taiwan as Kee Lung-class destroyers)