Guided missile destroyer

The Japanese guided missile destroyer JDS Kongō (DDG-173) firing a Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile.

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 American hull classification system.

In addition to the guns that destroyers have, 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 of navies that no longer operate cruisers, as other vessels must be adopted to fill in the gap.

Active and planned guided missile (GM) destroyers

Royal Australian Navy

• Hobart-class destroyer
  • HMAS Hobart (Under construction – D39?)
  • HMAS Brisbane (Under construction – D41?)
  • HMAS Sydney (Under construction)

HMCS Iroquois (DDG-280), an Iroquois-class destroyer

Royal Canadian Navy

• Iroquois-class destroyer
  • HMCS Athabaskan (DDH 282)

People's Liberation Army Navy of China

Kunming (D172), a Chinese Type 052D destroyer

• Type 055 destroyer (under construction)
• Type 052D destroyer
  • Kunming (172)
  • Changsha (173)
  • Hefei (174)
  • Yinchuan (175) (Sea trial)
  • (117) (Sea trial)
  • (118) (Fitting out)
  • (119) (Fitting out)
  • (120) (Fitting out)
  • (154) (Under construction)
  • (155) (Under construction)
• Type 052C (Luyang II class) destroyer
  • Lanzhou (170)
  • Haikou (171)
  • Changchun (150)
  • Zhengzhou (151)
  • Jinan (152)
  • Xi'an (153)
• 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
  • Xining (108)
  • Kaifeng (109)
  • Dalian (110)
  • Chongqing (133)
  • Zunyi (134)
  • Nanchang (163)
  • Guilin (164)
  • Zhanjiang (165)
  • Zhuhai (166)
• Sovremenny-class destroyer
  • Hangzhou (136)
  • Fuzhou (137)
  • Taizhou (138)
  • Ningbo (139)

French Navy

Forbin (D620), a Horizon-class destroyer

Although the French Navy no longer uses the term "destroyer" (French: destructeur), the largest frigates are assigned pennant numbers with flag superior "D", which designates destroyer.

• Horizon-class frigate
  • Forbin (D620)
  • Chevalier Paul (D621)
• Cassard-class frigate
  • Cassard (D 614)
  • Jean Bart (D615)
• Georges Leygues-class frigate
  • Dupleix (D641)
  • Montcalm (D642)
  • Jean de Vienne (D643)
  • Primauguet (D644)
  • La Motte-Picquet (D645)
  • Latouche-Tréville (D646)
• Aquitaine-class frigate

Indian Navy

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INS Kolkata (D63), a Kolkata-class destroyer

• Visakhapatnam-class destroyer (Under construction)
  • INS Visakhapatnam (D66)
  • INS Porbandar (D67)
  • INS Marmagoa (D68)
  • INS (D69)
• Kolkata-class destroyer
  • INS Kolkata
  • INS Kochi
  • INS Chennai
• Delhi-class destroyer
  • INS Delhi
  • INS Mysore
  • INS Mumbai
• Rajput-class destroyer
  • INS Rajput
  • INS Rana
  • INS Ranjit
  • INS Ranvir
  • INS Ranvijay

Italian Navy

Caio Duilio (D554), an Orizzonte-class destroyer

• Durand de la Penne-class destroyer
  • Luigi Durand De La Penne (D560)
  • Francesco Mimbelli (D561)
• Orizzonte-class destroyer
  • Andrea Doria (D553)
  • Caio Duilio (D554)

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

JDS Ashigara (DDG-178), an Atago-class destroyer

• Hatakaze-class destroyer
  • JDS Hatakaze (DDG-171)
  • JDS Shimakaze (DDG-172)
• Kongō-class destroyer
  • JDS Kongō (DDG-173)
  • JDS Kirishima (DDG-174)
  • JDS Myōkō (DDG-175)
  • JDS Chōkai (DDG-176)
• Atago-class destroyer
  • JDS Atago (DDG-177)
  • JDS Ashigara (DDG-178)

Russian Navy

Nastoychivyy (610), a Sovremenny-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)

ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803)

Republic of China Navy (Taiwan)

• 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)

Republic of Korea Navy

ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991), a Sejong the Great-class destroyer

• Sejong the Great-class destroyer
  • ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991)
  • ROKS Yulgok Yi I (DDG-992)
  • ROKS Seoae Yu Seong-ryong (DDG-993)

Royal Navy

HMS Daring (D32), a Type 45 destroyer

• Type 82 destroyer
  • HMS Bristol (D23) (now as training ship)

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

United States Navy

Zumwalt-class destroyer

USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

• Zumwalt-class destroyer
  • USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) (Began sea trials 12/7/15)
• 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)

Former guided missile destroyer classes

France

• Tourville-class frigate

Italy

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

Japan

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

Soviet Union

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

United Kingdom

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

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)
• Kidd-class destroyer (sold to Taiwan as Kee Lung-class destroyers)