A guided missile destroyer is a destroyer designed to launch 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 their hull pennant numbering, either prefixing,
or dropping it altogether.
The U.S. Navy has adopted the classification DDG in the US hull classification symbol.
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.
Some guided missile destroyers contain powerful weapon system radars, like the United States’
Aegis combat system, 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 cruisers, as other vessels
must be adopted to fill in the gap.
Active and planned guided missile destroyers Royal Australian Navy
Hobart Class destroyer HMAS Hobart
HMAS Brisbane HMAS Sydney
Royal Canadian Navy Iroquois class destroyer
HMCS Iroquois HMCS Athabaskan
HMCS Algonquin
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy
Type 052D class destroyer Kunming
(173?)
Type 052C class destroyer Lanzhou
Haikou Changchun
Zhengzhou Jinan
(153)
Type 052B destroyer Guangzhou
Wuhan
Type 052 destroyer Harbin
Qingdao
Type 051C destroyer Shenyang
Shijiazhuang
Type 051B destroyer Shenzhen
Type 051 destroyer Xining
Kaifeng Dalian
Chongqing Zunyi
Nanchang Guilin
Zhanjiang Zhuhai
Sovremenny class destroyer Hangzhou
Fuzhou Taizhou
Ningbo
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 frigate Forbin
Chevalier Paul
Cassard class frigate Cassard
Jean Bart
Georges Leygues class frigate Dupleix
Montcalm Jean de Vienne
Primauguet La Motte Picquet
Latouche-Tréville
Aquitaine class frigate Indian Navy
Kolkata class destroyers INS Kolkata
INS Kochi INS Chennai
Delhi class destroyers INS Delhi
INS Mysore INS Mumbai
Rajput class destroyers INS Rajput
INS Rana INS Ranjit
INS Ranvir INS Ranvijay
Iranian Navy
Jamaran class destroyer Italian Navy
Durand de la Penne class destroyer Luigi Durand De La Penne
Francesco Mimbelli
Orizzonte class destroyer Andrea Doria
Caio Duilio
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Hatakaze class destroyer JDS Hatakaze
JDS Shimakaze
Kongō class destroyer JDS Kongō
JDS Kirishima JDS Myōkō
JDS Chōkai
Atago class destroyer JDS Atago
JDS Ashigara
Russian Navy
Kashin class destroyer Smetlivy
Sovremenny class destroyer Bystryy
Gremyashchiy Bespokoynyy
Nastoychivyy Admiral Ushakov
Udaloy class destroyer Vice-Admiral Kulakov
Admiral Tributs Marshal Shaposhnikov
Severomorsk Admiral Levchenko
Admiral Vinogradov Admiral Panteleyev
Admiral Chabanenko
Republic of China Navy Kee Lung class destroyer
ROCS Kee Lung ROCS Su Ao
ROCS Tso Ying ROCS Ma Kong
Republic of Korea Navy
Sejong the Great class destroyer ROKS Sejong the Great
ROKS Yulgok Yi I ROKS Seoae Yu Seong-ryong
Royal Navy
Type 82 destroyer HMS Bristol
Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring
HMS Dauntless HMS Diamond
HMS Dragon HMS Defender
HMS Duncan
US Navy
Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Arleigh Burke
USS Barry USS John Paul Jones
USS Curtis Wilbur USS Stout
USS John S. McCain USS Mitscher
USS Laboon USS Russell
USS Paul Hamilton USS Ramage
USS Fitzgerald USS Stethem
USS Carney USS Benfold
USS Gonzalez USS Cole
USS The Sullivans USS Milius
USS Hopper USS Ross
USS Mahan USS Decatur
USS McFaul USS Donald Cook
USS Higgins USS O'Kane
USS Porter USS Oscar Austin
USS Roosevelt USS Winston S. Churchill
USS Lassen USS Howard
USS Bulkeley USS McCampbell
USS Shoup USS Mason
USS Preble USS Mustin
USS Chafee USS Pinckney
USS Momsen USS Chung-Hoon
USS Nitze USS James E. Williams
USS Bainbridge USS Halsey
USS Forrest Sherman USS Farragut
USS Kidd USS Gridley
USS Sampson USS Truxtun
USS Sterett USS Dewey
USS Stockdale USS Gravely
USS Wayne E. Meyer USS Jason Dunham
USS William P. Lawrence USS Spruance
USS Michael Murphy USS John Finn
USS Ralph Johnson USS Rafael Peralta
Zumwalt class destroyer USS Zumwalt
Former guided missile destroyer classes France
Tourville class frigate Italy
Impavido class destroyer Audace class destroyer
Japan Amatsukaze class destroyer
Tachikaze class destroyer Soviet Union
Kotlin class destroyer Kanin class destroyer
United Kingdom County class destroyer
Type 42 destroyer United States
Farragut class destroyer Charles F. Adams class destroyer
Kidd class destroyer Spruance class destroyers