A guided missile destroyer is a destroyer

Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...

 designed to launch guided missile

Guided Missile

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s. Many are also equipped to carry out anti-submarine

Anti-submarine warfare

Anti-submarine warfare is a branch of naval warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and deter, damage or destroy enemy submarines....

, anti-air

Anti-aircraft warfare

NATO defines air defence as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action." They include ground and air based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures. It may be to protect naval, ground and air forces...

, and anti-surface

Anti-Surface Warfare

Anti-surface warfare is a type of naval warfare directed against surface combatants. More generally, it is any weapons, sensors, or operations intended to attack or limit the effectiveness of an adversary's surface ships....

 operations

Modern naval tactics

The term modern naval tactics refers to tactical doctrines developed after World War II, following the final obsolescence of the battleship and the development of long-range missiles. Since there has been no major naval conflict since World War II, with the exception of the Falklands War, many of...

. In the U.S. Navy

United States Navy

The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...

, their hull classification symbol

Hull classification symbol

The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use hull classification symbols to identify their ship types and each individual ship within each type...

 is DDG.

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

Vertical Launching System

A vertical launching system is a system for holding and firing missiles on surface ships and submarines used by many navies around the world. Each VLS system consists of a number of cells, which can hold one or more missiles ready for firing...

. Some guided missile destroyers contain powerful weapon system radars, like the United States’ Aegis combat system

Aegis combat system

The Aegis Combat System is an integrated naval weapons system developed by the Missile and Surface Radar Division of RCA, and now produced by Lockheed Martin...

, 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 cruiser

Cruiser

A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundreds of years, and has had different meanings throughout this period...

s, as other vessels must be adopted to fill in the gap.

List of DDGs of the Royal Australian Navy

Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force. Following the Federation of Australia in 1901, the ships and resources of the separate colonial navies were integrated into a national force: the Commonwealth Naval Forces...

 

• Hobart Class destroyer
  • HMAS Hobart
  • HMAS Brisbane
  • HMAS Sydney

List of DDGs of the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...

 

• Iroquois class destroyer
  Iroquois class destroyer
  Iroquois-class destroyers, also known as Tribal class, are a class of four helicopter-carrying, guided missile destroyers of the Canadian Forces. Launched in the 1970s, they were originally fitted out for anti-submarine warfare, but a major upgrade programme in the 1990s overhauled them for...
  
  
  • HMCS Iroquois
    HMCS Iroquois (DDH 280)
    HMCS Iroquois is an that has served the Canadian Forces since 1972.Iroquois is the lead ship of her class which is sometimes referred to as the Tribal-class or simply as the 280-class. She is the second vessel to use the designation...
    
     (DDG-280)
  • HMCS Athabaskan
    HMCS Athabaskan (DDH 282)
    HMCS Athabaskan is an that has served the Canadian Forces since 1972.Athabaskan is the third ship of her class which is sometimes referred to as the Tribal-class or simply as the 280-class. She is the third vessel to use the designation .Athabaskan was laid down on 1 June 1969 at Davie...
    
     (DDG-282)
  • HMCS Algonquin
    HMCS Algonquin (DDH 283)
    HMCS Algonquin is an that has served the Canadian Forces since 1972.Algonquin is the fourth ship of her class which is sometimes referred to as the Tribal-class or simply as the 280-class. She is the second vessel to use the designation...
    
     (DDG-283)

List of DDGs of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy

People's Liberation Army Navy

The People's Liberation Army Navy is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army , the military of the People's Republic of China. Until the early 1990s, the navy performed a subordinate role to the PLA Land Forces. Since then, it has undergone rapid modernisation...

 

• Type 052C (Luyang II) class destroyer
  • Lanzhou (170)
  • Haikou (171)
• 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
  Luda class destroyer
  The Type 051 destroyer missile destroyer was the first surface warfare oriented vessel ever designed and built in China, and the first Chinese ship to be fitted with an integrated combat direction system...
  
  
  • Yinchuan (107)
  • Xining (108)
  • Kaifeng (109)
  • Dalian (110)
  • Nanjing (131)
  • Hefei (132)
  • Chongqing (133)
  • Zunyi (134)
  • Nanning (162)
  • Nanchang (163)
  • Guilin (164)
  • Zhanjiang (165)
  • Zhuhai (166)
• Sovremenny class destroyer
  Sovremenny class destroyer
  The Sovremenny class destroyer is the principal anti-surface warship of the Russian Navy. Soviet designation for the class was Project 956 Sarych ....
  
  
  • Hangzhou (136)
  • Fuzhou (137)
  • Taizhou (138)
  • Ningbo (139)

List of DDGs of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

 

Although the French Navy no longer uses the term "destroyer" (French: destructeur), the largest frigates are assigned pennant number

Pennant number

In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers...

s with flag superior "D", which designates destroyer.

• Horizon class frigate
  Horizon class frigate
  The Horizon Common New Generation Frigate is a multi-national collaboration to produce a new generation of anti-air warfare frigates. Originally an alliance of Britain, France and Italy, the project is now a French/Italian effort following the withdrawal of Britain due to differing requirements...
  
  
  • Forbin (D620)
  • Chevalier Paul (D621)
• Cassard class frigate
  Cassard class frigate
  The Cassard class is a class of AA frigates of the French Navy. The class is an air defence variant of the Georges Leygues class. The two classes have a different armament and propulsion system mounted on an identical hull. Their primary role is to provide air cover for a fleet, an aeronaval...
  
  
  • Cassard (D614)
  • Jean Bart (D615)
• Tourville class frigate
  Tourville class frigate
  The F67 type is a class of large high-sea Destroyers of the French Navy specialised in anti-submarine warfare. They have anti-air and anti-surface capabilities....
  
  
  • Tourville (D610)
  • De Grasse (D612)
• Georges Leygues class frigate
  Georges Leygues class frigate
  The Georges Leygues class is a class of anti-submarine frigates of the French Navy. They are polyvalent , due to their Exocet and Crotale missile complement, making them especially suitable for defence of strategic positions, demonstrations, or highseas escorts.The superstructures were built as to...
  
  
  • Georges Leygues (D640)
  • Dupleix (D641)
  • Montcalm (D642)
  • Jean de Vienne (D643)
  • Primauguet (D644)
  • La Motte Picquet (D645)
  • Latouche-Tréville (D646)

List of DDGs of the Indian Navy

Indian Navy

The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff , usually a four-star officer in the rank of Admiral, commands the Navy...

• Kolkata class destroyer
  Kolkata class destroyer
  The Kolkata class of guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy were conceptualized under Project 15A, and include land-attack capability as well as some signature reduction features. Three ships of the class are being built at Mazagon Dock Limited . The first vessel is expected to join the fleet...
  
  s
  • INS Kolkata
    INS Kolkata
    INS Kolkata is the lead ship of her class of guided-missile destroyers with stealth features. She is the first of 3 multi-role destroyers of Project 15A currently under construction at Mazagon Dock Limited...
    
    
  • INS Kochi
    INS Kochi
    INS Kochi is a 6,800 ton guided-missile stealth destroyer and the second of the Kolkata class destroyers of the Indian Navy. She is the second of 3 multi-role destroyers of the type under construction. In keeping with the tradition of the Navy, the warship was launched by Madhulika Verma, wife of...
    
    
  • INS Chennai
    INS Chennai
    INS Chennai is a 163-metre long Guided missile destroyer and the third of the Kolkata class destroyers of the Indian Navy. The destroyer is the third and last of the Kolkata class warships. It is named after the southern port city of Chennai; It will be the first naval ship named after Chennai,...
    
    
• Delhi class destroyer
  Delhi class destroyer
  The Delhi class destroyers are guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy. Three ships of this class are in active service.The Delhi class vessels are the largest warships to be fully designed and built in India, although they will soon be superseded by the Kolkata class destroyers and the...
  
  s
  • INS Delhi (D61)
    INS Delhi (D61)
    INS Delhi is the lead ship of her class of guided-missile destroyers of the Indian Navy. She was built at the Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai and commissioned on 15 November 1997. This class is among the largest warships to be designed and built in India.INS Delhi is the second vessel of the Indian...
    
    
  • INS Mysore (D60)
    INS Mysore (D60)
    INS Mysore is a Delhi-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service with the Indian Navy.-History:INS Mysore was built at Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai. Her keel was laid down in February 1991 and she was launched on 4 June 1993...
    
    
  • INS Mumbai (D62)
    INS Mumbai (D62)
    The INS Mumbai is the third of the Delhi-class guided-missile destroyers in active-service with the Indian Navy.Mumbai was built at Mazagon Dock Limited in her namesake city Mumbai, launched in 1995, and commissioned in 2001....
    
    
• Rajput class destroyer
  Rajput class destroyer
  The Rajput class guided-missile destroyers built for the Indian Navy are modified versions of Soviet Kashin class destroyers. They are also known as Kashin-II class. The ships were built in the former Soviet Union after considerable Indian design modifications to the Kashin design...
  
  s
  • INS Rajput (D51)
    INS Rajput (D51)
    INS Rajput is a guided-missile destroyer and the lead ship of the Rajput class destroyers of the Indian Navy. It was commissioned on September 30, 1980....
    
    
  • INS Rana (D52)
    INS Rana (D52)
    INS Rana is the second of the five Rajput class destroyers built for the Indian Navy. INS Rana was commissioned on 28 June 1982...
    
    
  • INS Ranjit (D53)
  • INS Ranvir (D54)
  • INS Ranvijay (D55)

List of DDGs of the Italian Navy

Marina Militare

The Italian Navy is the navy of the Italian Republic. It is one of the four branches of military forces of Italy; formed in 1946, from what remained of the Regia Marina . As of 2008, the Italian Navy had 35,200 active personnel with 180 commissioned ships, 19 Floating Docks, and 123 aircraft...

 

• Durand de la Penne class destroyer
  Durand de la Penne class destroyer
  The Durand de la Penne class destroyers are two guided missile destroyers operated by the Marina Militare, the Italian navy. The design is an updated version of the Audace class destroyers but these ships are larger, have CODOG machinery and modern sensors...
  
  
  • Luigi Durand De La Penne (D560)
    Durand de la Penne class destroyer
    The Durand de la Penne class destroyers are two guided missile destroyers operated by the Marina Militare, the Italian navy. The design is an updated version of the Audace class destroyers but these ships are larger, have CODOG machinery and modern sensors...
    
    
  • Francesco Mimbelli (D561)
• Orizzonte class destroyer
  Horizon class frigate
  The Horizon Common New Generation Frigate is a multi-national collaboration to produce a new generation of anti-air warfare frigates. Originally an alliance of Britain, France and Italy, the project is now a French/Italian effort following the withdrawal of Britain due to differing requirements...
  
  
  • Andrea Doria (D553)
  • Caio Duilio (D554)

List of DDGs of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

The , or JMSDF, is the naval branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. It was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy after World War II....

• Hatakaze class destroyer
  Hatakaze class destroyer
  The Hatakaze class of guided missile destroyer is a third generation vessel in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . They were the first of the JMSDF's ships to have gas-turbine propulsion....
  
  
  • JDS Hatakaze
    Hatakaze class destroyer
    The Hatakaze class of guided missile destroyer is a third generation vessel in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . They were the first of the JMSDF's ships to have gas-turbine propulsion....
    
     (DDG-171)
  • JDS Shimakaze
    Hatakaze class destroyer
    The Hatakaze class of guided missile destroyer is a third generation vessel in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . They were the first of the JMSDF's ships to have gas-turbine propulsion....
    
     (DDG-172)
• Kongō class destroyer
  Kongo class destroyer
  The of guided missile destroyers serves as the core ship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 's Escort Flotillas. They are a modification of the United States Navy's Arleigh Burke class .-Design:...
  
  
  • JDS Kongō
    JDS Kongo (DDG-173)
    JDS Kongō is a Kongō class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . Kongō is the third Japanese naval vessel named for Mount Kongō....
    
     (DDG-173)
  • JDS Kirishima
    JDS Kirishima (DDG-174)
    JDS Kirishima is a Kongō class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . Kirishima was named for Mount Kirishima....
    
     (DDG-174)
  • JDS Myōkō
    JDS Myoko (DDG-175)
    JDS Myōkō is a Kongō class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . Myōkō was named for Mount Myōkō....
    
     (DDG-175)
  • JDS Chōkai
    JDS Chokai (DDG-176)
    JDS Chōkai is a Kongō class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . Chōkai was named for Mount Chōkai....
    
     (DDG-176)
• Atago class destroyer
  Atago class destroyer
  The is an improved version of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force 's Kongō class destroyers. It is a Japanese variant of the United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ....
  
  
  • JDS Atago
    JDS Atago (DDG-177)
    (DDG-177） is an Atago class guided missile destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Atago was named for Mount Atago.She was laid down by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki, Nagasaki on April 5, 2004, launched on August 24, 2005; and commissioned on March 15,...
    
     (DDG-177)
  • JDS Ashigara (DDG-178)

List of DDGs of the Russian Navy 

• Kashin class destroyer
  Kashin class destroyer
  The Kashin class destroyers were a group of guided missile destroyers built for the Soviet Navy in the 1960s and early 1970s. Their Soviet designation was Project 61...
  
  
  • Smetlivy
• Sovremenny class destroyer
  Sovremenny class destroyer
  The Sovremenny class destroyer is the principal anti-surface warship of the Russian Navy. Soviet designation for the class was Project 956 Sarych ....
  
  
  • Bystryy (715)
  • Gremyashchiy (406)
  • Bespokoynyy (620)
  • Nastoychivyy (610)
  • Admiral Ushakov (434)
• Udaloy class destroyer
  Udaloy class destroyer
  The Udaloy I class are a series of anti-submarine destroyers built for the Soviet Navy, eight of which are currently in service with the Russian Navy. The Russian designation is Project 1155 Fregat...
  
  
  • Vice-Admiral Kulakov
  • Admiral Tributs (552)
  • Marshal Shaposhnikov (543)
  • Severomorsk (619)
  • Admiral Levchenko (605)
  • Admiral Vinogradov (572)
  • Admiral Panteleyev (548)
  • Admiral Chabanenko (650)

List of DDGs of the Republic of China Navy (Taiwan)

Republic of China Navy

The Republic of China Navy is the maritime branch of the Armed forces of the Republic of China . The ROC Navy's primary mission is to defend ROC territories and the sea lanes that surround Taiwan against a blockade, attack, or possible invasion by forces of the People's Republic of China...

 

• 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)

List of DDGs of the Republic of Korea Navy

Republic of Korea Navy

The Republic of Korea Navy or the ROK Navy is the branch of the South Korean armed forces responsible for conducting naval operations and amphibious landing operations. The ROK Navy includes the Republic of Korea Marine Corps, which is a quasi-autonomous organization...

 

• King Sejong the Great class destroyer
  • ROKS King Sejong the Great (DDG-991)
  • ROKS Yulgok Yi I (DDG-992)

List of DDGs of the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

 

• Type 45 destroyer
  Type 45 destroyer
  The United Kingdom's Type 45 destroyer is an air defence destroyer programme of the Royal Navy which will replace its Type 42 destroyers. The first ship in the class, HMS Daring, was launched on 1 February 2006 and commissioned on 23 July 2009. The ships are now built by BAE Systems Surface Ships...
  
  
  • HMS Daring
    HMS Daring (D32)
    HMS Daring is the lead ship of the Type 45 or 'D' class of air defence destroyer in the Royal Navy and the seventh ship to hold that name.She was launched in 2006 on the Clyde and conducted contractor's sea trials during 2007 and 2008...
    
     (D32)
  • HMS Dauntless
    HMS Dauntless (D33)
    HMS Dauntless is the second ship of the Type 45 class of air defence destroyer built for the Royal Navy...
    
     (D33)
  • HMS Diamond
    HMS Diamond (D34)
    HMS Diamond is the third ship of the Type 45 or 'D' class of air defence destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in 2007, completed her contractor's sea trials in July 2010 and arrived at her base port on 22 September 2010...
    
     (D34)
  • HMS Dragon
    HMS Dragon (D35)
    HMS Dragon is the fourth ship of the Type 45 or 'D' class of air defence destroyers that has been built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in November 2008 and is currently conducting Stage 1 trials...
    
     (D35)
  • HMS Defender
    HMS Defender (D36)
    HMS Defender is the fifth ship of the Type 45 or 'D' class of air defence destroyer built for the Royal Navy. Construction of Defender began in 2006, and she was launched in 2009...
    
     (D36)
  • HMS Duncan
    HMS Duncan (D37)
    HMS Duncan is the sixth ship of the Type 45 or 'D' class of air defence destroyer planned to be built for the Royal Navy. Duncan is named after Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan of Camperdown , who defeated the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Camperdown on 11 October 1797.-Construction:Duncans...
    
     (D37)

• Type 42 destroyer
  Type 42 destroyer
  The Type 42 or Sheffield class, are guided missile destroyers used by the British Royal Navy and the Argentine Navy. The first ship of the class was ordered in 1968 and launched in 1971, and today three ships remain active in the Royal Navy and one in the Argentinian Navy...
  
  
  • HMS Liverpool
    HMS Liverpool (D92)
    HMS Liverpool is a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was built by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead and launched on 25 September 1980 by Lady Strathcona, wife of Euan Howard, the then Minister of State for Defence. Liverpool is the last Batch 2 Type 42 in service.-Operational history:Liverpool was...
    
     (D92)
  • HMS Manchester
    HMS Manchester (D95)
    HMS Manchester was a Type 42 destroyer in the 5th Destroyer Squadron of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1978 at Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, launched in 1980, commissioned in 1982, and decommissioned on 24 February 2011.Her nickname is the "Busy Bee", in reference to...
    
     (D95)
  • HMS Edinburgh
    HMS Edinburgh (D97)
    HMS Edinburgh is a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. Edinburgh was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead. She was launched on 14 April 1983 and commissioned on the 17 December 1985...
    
     (D97)
  • HMS Gloucester
    HMS Gloucester (D96)
    HMS Gloucester was a Batch 3 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. The ship was built by Vosper Thorneycroft at Woolston, Southampton and launched on 2 November 1982 by The Duchess of Gloucester. HMS Gloucester was one of the modified last four of the class to be built, having a lengthened hull...
    
     (D96)
  • HMS York
    HMS York (D98)
    HMS York is a Batch III Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy. Launched on 20 June 1982 at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear and sponsored by Lady Gosling, HMS York was the last Type 42 built. The ship's crest is the White Rose of York, and the "red cross with lions passant" funnel badge is derived from the...
    
     (D98)

List of DDGs of the US Navy 

• Arleigh Burke class destroyer
  Arleigh Burke class destroyer
  The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers is the United States Navy's first class of destroyer built around the Aegis combat system and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The class is named for Admiral Arleigh "31-Knot" Burke, the most famous American destroyer officer of...
  
  
  • USS Arleigh Burke
    USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
    The USS Arleigh Burke , named for Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN , is the lead ship of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. She was laid down by the Bath Iron Works company at Bath, Maine, on 6 December 1988, and launched on 16 September 1989 by Mrs. Arleigh Burke...
    
     (DDG-51)
  • USS Barry
    USS Barry (DDG-52)
    USS Barry is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, commissioned in 1992. Barry is the fourth United States Navy ship named after the "Father of the American Navy", Commodore John Barry . Barry is homeported at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. Several improvements over exist on this...
    
     (DDG-52)
  • USS John Paul Jones
    USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)
    USS John Paul Jones is the third Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer and the first ship of the class homeported on the west coast. She is named after American Revolutionary War Captain John Paul Jones...
    
     (DDG-53)
  • USS Curtis Wilbur
    USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54)
    USS Curtis Wilbur is the fourth Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Curtis Wilbur was named for Curtis D. Wilbur, forty-third Secretary of the Navy, who served under President Calvin Coolidge....
    
     (DDG-54)
  • USS Stout
    USS Stout (DDG-55)
    USS Stout is the sixth Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, she was commissioned on 13 August 1994 and she is currently homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.-Etymology:...
    
     (DDG-55)
  • USS John S. McCain
    USS John S. McCain (DDG-56)
    USS John S. McCain is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is part of the Seventh Fleet, and she has her homeport at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan....
    
     (DDG-56)
  • USS Mitscher
    USS Mitscher (DDG-57)
    USS Mitscher became the second United States Navy warship named to honor Admiral Marc A. Mitscher , famed naval aviator and World War II aircraft carrier task group commander. In 1988 the U.S...
    
     (DDG-57)
  • USS Laboon
    USS Laboon (DDG-58)
    USS Laboon is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy.She is named for Father John Francis Laboon , a captain in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy, who was awarded the Silver Star during World War II while serving on USS Peto .Laboon keel was laid down on 23 March...
    
     (DDG-58)
  • USS Russell
    USS Russell (DDG-59)
    USS Russell is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the second ship of the USN to carry the name Russell and is named for Rear Admiral John Henry Russell and his son, Commandant of the Marine Corps John Henry Russell, Jr..In May 2004, Russell departed for a four-month...
    
     (DDG-59)
  • USS Paul Hamilton
    USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60)
    USS Paul Hamilton is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy.Paul Hamilton was commissioned in Charleston, South Carolina...
    
     (DDG-60)
  • USS Ramage
    USS Ramage (DDG-61)
    USS Ramage is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship is named for Vice Admiral Lawson P...
    
     (DDG-61)
  • USS Fitzgerald
    USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62)
    USS Fitzgerald , named for Lieutenant William Charles Fitzgerald, USN is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was laid down by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine 9 February 1993; launched 29 January 1994; and commissioned 14 October 1995 in Newport, R.I...
    
     (DDG-62)
  • USS Stethem
    USS Stethem (DDG-63)
    USS Stethem is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship was built in Pascagoula, Mississippi, starting on May 11, 1993. The ship was commissioned on October 21, 1995 and is based out of Yokosuka, Japan. It has operated throughout the Pacific Ocean, as well as on...
    
     (DDG-63)
  • USS Carney
    USS Carney (DDG-64)
    USS Carney is 14th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship is the first to be named after Admiral Robert Carney who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower administration. She was laid down 3 August 1993 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was...
    
     (DDG-64)
  • USS Benfold
    USS Benfold (DDG-65)
    The USS Benfold is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for the USN Hospital Corpsman Edward Clyde Benfold. She is the first U.S...
    
     (DDG-65)
  • USS Gonzalez
    USS Gonzalez (DDG-66)
    USS Gonzalez is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Sergeant Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez, a Medal of Honor recipient in the Vietnam War.-History:...
    
     (DDG-66)
  • USS Cole
    USS Cole (DDG-67)
    The second USS Cole is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer homeported in NS Norfolk, Virginia. The Cole is named in honor of Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine-gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, during World War II...
    
     (DDG-67)
  • USS The Sullivans
    USS The Sullivans (DDG-68)
    USS The Sullivans , an Arleigh Burke-class "Aegis" guided missile destroyer, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the five Sullivan brothers — George, Francis, Joseph, Madison, and Albert Sullivan, aged 20 to 27 — who lost their lives when their ship, USS...
    
     (DDG-68)
  • USS Milius
    USS Milius (DDG-69)
    The USS Milius is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. Her namesake is Commander Paul L. Milius of U.S. Navy squadron VO-67. His aircraft was hit over Laos in 1968 and he ordered his crew to bail out. Although he exited his aircraft, he was never...
    
     (DDG-69)
  • USS Hopper
    USS Hopper (DDG-70)
    USS Hopper , an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, is a ship of the United States Navy named for the pioneering computer scientist, Rear Admiral "Amazing Grace" Hopper....
    
     (DDG-70)
  • USS Ross
    USS Ross (DDG-71)
    USS Ross is an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship of that name, and the first named in honor of Captain Donald K...
    
     (DDG-71)
  • USS Mahan
    USS Mahan (DDG-72)
    USS Mahan is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer currently in service with the United States Navy.-Overview:The USS Mahan is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, and is one of the ships of the United States Fleet Forces Command.-Namesake:...
    
     (DDG-72)
  • USS Decatur
    USS Decatur (DDG-73)
    USS Decatur is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer. The fifth ship to carry the name, Decatur was laid down on 11 January 1996 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched on 9 November 1996, sponsored by Mrs. Joan E. Shalikashvili, wife of John M. Shalikashvili, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;...
    
     (DDG-73)
  • USS McFaul
    USS McFaul (DDG-74)
    USS McFaul is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Chief Petty Officer Donald L. McFaul, a Navy SEAL who was killed in action on 20 December 1989, while serving in Panama...
    
     (DDG-74)
  • USS Donald Cook
    USS Donald Cook (DDG-75)
    USS Donald Cook is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy.Named for Donald Cook, a Vietnam War prisoner of war who died in captivity, the destroyer was commissioned in 1998. It was one of the first U.S. warships to come to the aid of the USS Cole after it was...
    
     (DDG-75)
  • USS Higgins
    USS Higgins (DDG-76)
    USS Higgins is a Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1999 and named after William R...
    
     (DDG-76)
  • USS O'Kane
    USS O'Kane (DDG-77)
    USS O'Kane is an in the United States Navy. The ship was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, starting on May 8, 1997. The ship was commissioned on October 23, 1999. It is named for Medal of Honor recipient Rear Admiral Richard O'Kane....
    
     (DDG-77)
  • USS Porter
    USS Porter (DDG-78)
    USS Porter is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Porter is named after Commodore David Porter, and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter....
    
     (DDG-78)
  • USS Oscar Austin
    USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79)
    USS Oscar Austin is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy.Oscar Austin is named for Private First Class Oscar P. Austin, USMC, a recipient of the Medal of Honor...
    
     (DDG-79)
  • USS Roosevelt
    USS Roosevelt (DDG-80)
    USS Roosevelt is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The Roosevelt is the second Flight IIA ship and the last US Navy destroyer to carry the 5"/54 Mk. 45 mod 3 gun....
    
     (DDG-80)
  • USS Winston S. Churchill
    USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81)
    USS Winston S. Churchill is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She is the 31st destroyer of a planned 62-ship class. The Churchill is named after the...
    
     (DDG-81)
  • USS Lassen
    USS Lassen (DDG-82)
    USS Lassen is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. Her current commanding officer is Commander W.C...
    
     (DDG-82)
  • USS Howard
    USS Howard (DDG-83)
    USS Howard is the thirty-third Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy and the nineteenth built at Bath Iron Works. Her keel was laid down 9 December 1998, launched and christened 20 November 1999 and commissioned 20 October 2001.The ship is named in honor of Gunnery Sgt. Jimmie E...
    
     (DDG-83)
  • USS Bulkeley
    USS Bulkeley (DDG-84)
    USS Bulkeley is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named after Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley, who was a World War II Medal of Honor recipient....
    
     (DDG-84)
  • USS McCampbell
    USS McCampbell (DDG-85)
    USS McCampbell is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy, named for Captain David McCampbell , the Navy's leading ace in World War II...
    
     (DDG-85)
  • USS Shoup
    USS Shoup (DDG-86)
    USS Shoup is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship is named for General David M. Shoup , the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps....
    
     (DDG-86)
  • USS Mason
    USS Mason (DDG-87)
    USS Mason is an in the United States Navy.Homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, the USS Mason is the 37th Arleigh Burke class destroyer and the ninth of the Flight IIA variant. She was commissioned in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in April 2003. Her first captain was Commander David Gale.This is the third...
    
     (DDG-87)
  • USS Preble
    USS Preble (DDG-88)
    USS Preble is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the sixth U.S. Navy ship named for Commodore Edward Preble...
    
     (DDG-88)
  • USS Mustin
    USS Mustin (DDG-89)
    The USS Mustin is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named in honor of the Mustin family. Mustin was the first Burke destroyer built with her funnels submerged into the superstructure, an additional stealth measure taken on the warships...
    
     (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
    USS Bainbridge (DDG-96)
    USS Bainbridge is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the fifth ship to carry that name, and the 46th destroyer of a planned 62-ship class...
    
     (DDG-96)
  • USS Halsey
    USS Halsey (DDG-97)
    USS Halsey is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. Halsey is named in honor of Fleet Admiral William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. Halsey was commissioned 30 July 2005 at Naval Air Station North Island, Coronado, California, under commanding officer Commander...
    
     (DDG-97)
  • USS Forrest Sherman
    USS Forrest Sherman (DDG-98)
    USS Forrest Sherman is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Admiral Forrest Sherman, and is the second US Navy ship to bear the name....
    
     (DDG-98)
  • USS Farragut
    USS Farragut (DDG-99)
    USS Farragut is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the fifth Navy ship named for Admiral David Farragut , and the 49th ship of the Arleigh Burke class....
    
     (DDG-99)
  • USS Kidd
    USS Kidd (DDG-100)
    USS Kidd is an in the United States Navy. She is the third Navy ship named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who was on board during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the first American flag officer to die in World War II....
    
     (DDG-100)
  • USS Gridley
    USS Gridley (DDG-101)
    The fourth USS Gridley is the fifty-first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Gridley is named after Captain Charles Gridley, Commander of Admiral George Dewey's flagship Olympia, and recipient of Admiral Dewey's famous command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" in...
    
     (DDG-101)
  • USS Sampson
    USS Sampson (DDG-102)
    USS Sampson is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was authorized in 2002 and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship named to honor Rear Admiral William T. Sampson.She was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine...
    
     (DDG-102)
  • USS Truxtun
    USS Truxtun (DDG-103)
    USS Truxtun is a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. Her keel was laid down on 11 April 2005 and she was launched on 17 April 2007. Her commissioning ceremony was held 25 April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina with Commander Timothy Weber as her first commanding officer...
    
     (DDG-103)
  • USS Sterett
    USS Sterett (DDG-104)
    USS Sterett , an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of Andrew Sterett, a naval officer who served during the Quasi-War and the Barbary Wars....
    
     (DDG-104)
  • USS Dewey
    USS Dewey (DDG-105)
    USS Dewey is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. Dewey is the third Navy ship named after Admiral of the Navy George Dewey, hero of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War....
    
     (DDG-105)
  • USS Stockdale
    USS Stockdale (DDG-106)
    USS Stockdale is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. The third Navy ship of that name, Stockdale is named after Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale and is the 56th destroyer in her class. She was authorized on 13 September 2002 and was built by Bath...
    
     (DDG-106)
  • USS Gravely
    USS Gravely (DDG-107)
    USS Gravely is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.Gravely is the 57th destroyer in her class...
    
     (DDG-107)
  • USS Wayne E. Meyer
    USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108)
    The USS Wayne E. Meyer is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer, who is known as the Father of Aegis....
    
     (DDG-108)
  • USS Jason Dunham
    USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109)
    USS Jason Dunham is an in the United States Navy. She is named after Corporal Jason L. Dunham USMC, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for service in Iraq....
    
     (DDG-109)
  • USS William P. Lawrence
    USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110)
    USS William P. Lawrence is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer built by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. She is the 60th ship in her class....
    
     (DDG-110)
  • USS Spruance
    USS Spruance (DDG-111)
    USS Spruance is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer currently in service with the United States Navy. She is the 61st ship in her class.-Overview:...
    
     (DDG-111)
  • USS Michael Murphy
    USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112)
    PCU Michael Murphy is the 62nd ship of the s. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient Michael P. Murphy . Her contract was awarded on 13 September 2002 to the Bath Iron Works and Vice Admiral John Morgan, the first commanding officer of , made the first cut of steel. DDG-112 was named...
    
     (DDG-112)

Former guided missile destroyer classes

• Impavido class destroyer
  Impavido class destroyer
  The Impavido class were the second group of destroyers built for the Italian Navy after World War II and the first Italian Guided Missile destroyers.Similar in performance to the American Charles F...
  
  
• Audace class destroyer
  Audace class destroyer
  The Audace class destroyers were two guided missile destroyers built for the Italian Navy during the Cold War. An improvement of the Impavido class, these ships were designed for area air defence and also had a heavy gun armament...
  
  

• Amatsukaze class destroyer
• Tachikaze class destroyer
  Tachikaze class destroyer
  The Tachikaze class destroyer is a second generation Guided missile destroyer, formerly in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . The ships of this class have had successive improvements after their completion, especially to their C4I systems...
  
  

• Kotlin class destroyer
  Kotlin class destroyer (Project 56)
  Kotlin class destroyers were Cold War era ships built for the Soviet Navy. The Russian name for this class was Project 56 Spokoinyy . 27 ships were built between 1955 and 1958; they were all decommissioned in the late 1980s. The Kildin class is based on the design of the Kotlins...
  
  
• Kildin class destroyer
  Kildin class destroyer
  The Kildin Class destroyer was a series of destroyers built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1950s. They were a missile armed version of the Kotlin class destroyer Four ships were built around the KSShch anti-ship missile. When this missile became obsolete in the 1960s, three ships were modernised...
  
  
• Kanin class destroyer
  Kanin class destroyer
  The Kanin class destroyers were warships of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. The Soviet designation was Project 57A Gnevny . These ships were the first Soviet guided missile destroyers and were initially designated Project 57bis and known to NATO as the Krupny class...
  
  

• County class destroyer
  County class destroyer
  The County class was a class of guided missile destroyers, the first such vessels built by the Royal Navy. Designed specifically around the Sea Slug anti-aircraft missile system, the primary role of these ships was area air-defence around the aircraft carrier task force in the nuclear-war...
  
  

• Farragut class destroyer
  Farragut class destroyer (1958)
  The Farragut class was the second destroyer class of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. The class is sometimes referred to as the Coontz class, since Coontz was first to be designed and built as a guided missile ship, whereas the previous three ships were...
  
  
• Charles F. Adams class destroyer
  Charles F. Adams class destroyer
  The Charles F. Adams class is a ship class of 29 guided missile destroyers built between 1958 and 1967. Twenty three ships were built for the United States Navy, 3 for the Royal Australian Navy, and 3 for the West German Bundesmarine. The ships were based on the existing Forrest Sherman class, but...
  
  
• Spruance class destroyer
  Spruance class destroyer
  The Spruance-class destroyer was developed by the United States to replace a large number of World War II-built Allen M. Sumner- and Gearing-class destroyers, and was the primary destroyer built for the U.S. Navy during the 1970s....