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. The NATO standard designation for these vessels is DDG, while destroyers who have a primary gun armament and/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.

Guided-missile destroyers are equipped with large missile magazines, with modern examples typically having vertical-launch cells. Some guided-missile destroyers 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.

Active and planned guided-missile destroyers

Royal Australian Navy

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** 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)
** ''La'sa'' (DDG-102)
** ''Dalian'' (DDG-105)
** ''Anshan'' (DDG-103)
** ''Yan'an'' (DDG-106)
** ''Wuxi'' (DDG-104)
** ''Zunyi'' (DDG-107)
**Innominate 8th ship (Fitting out)

* 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)
**''Kaifeng'' (DDG-124)
**''Guilin'' (DDG-164)
**''Baotou'' (DDG-133)
**''Zhenjiang'' (DDG-165) (Fitting out)
**''Shaoxing'' (DDG-134) (Sea trials)
**''Jiaozuo'' (DDG-163) (Sea trials)
**''Zhuhai'' (DDG-157) (Sea trials)

* 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)
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**''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.
* (in France designated as frigate, designated as destroyers using NATO classification)
** ''Forbin'' (D620)
** ''Chevalier Paul'' (D621)

Indian Navy

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* Project 18(planned)

Italian Navy

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** ''Luigi Durand De La Penne'' (D 560)
**''Francesco Mimbelli'' (D 561)
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** ''Andrea Doria'' (D553)
** ''Caio Duilio'' (D554)

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

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** JS ''Maya'' (DDG-179)
** JS ''Haguro'' (DDG-180)
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** JS ''Atago'' (DDG-177)
** JS ''Ashigara'' (DDG-178)
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** JS ''Kongo'' (DDG-173)
** JS ''Kirishima'' (DDG-174)
** JS ''Myoko'' (DDG-175)
** JS ''Chokai'' (DDG-176)
*Akizuki-class destroyer
** JS ''Akizuki'' (DD-115)
** JS ''Teruzuki'' (DD-116)
** JS ''Suzutsuki'' (DD-117)
** JS ''Fuyuzuki'' (DD-118)
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** JS ''Hatakaze'' (DDG-171)
** JS ''Shimakaze'' (DDG-172)

Republic of Korea Navy

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** ROKS ''Sejong the Great'' (DDG-991)
** ROKS ''Yulgok Yi I'' (DDG-992)
** ROKS ''Seoae Yu Seong-ryong'' (DDG-993)

Russian Navy

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

Republic of China Navy

* (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

*Type 45 destroyer
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* Type 83 destroyer (planned)

Spanish Navy

* (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)

United States Navy

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** 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) (Sea trials complete)
** USS ''Frank E. Petersen Jr.'' (DDG-121)
** USS ''John Basilone'' (DDG-122) (Fitting out)
** USS ''Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee'' (DDG-123) (Fitting out)
** USS ''Harvey C. Barnum Jr.'' (DDG-124) (Under construction)
** USS ''Jack H. Lucas'' (DDG-125) (Sea trials)
** 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)
** (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)
** USS ''Thad Chochran'' (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)
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* DDG(X) (planned)

Former guided-missile destroyer classes

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* ''Perth''-class destroyer (decommissioned/sunk as dive wrecks)
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* ''Iroquois''-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
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*These classes of French "frigates" had "D" pennant numbers and were destroyer-sized
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* (decommissioned/retired)
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* ''Amatsukaze''-class destroyer (decommissioned/retired)
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* (decommissioned/scrapped)
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* (decommissioned/scrapped/sunk)
*Type 82 destroyer (decommissioned)

*Type 42 destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
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* ''Farragut (Coontz)''-class destroyer (decommissioned/scrapped)
* (all but one sunk for target or scrapped; 1 reserved for future preservation as museum ship)
*The 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 was designated DDG-51, as the hull numbers DDG-47-50 had been used for ''Ticonderoga''-class ships.Friedman 2004, pp. 322–323, 425
* (sold to Taiwan as ''Kee Lung''-class destroyers)

References

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