Guided missile destroyer
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A guided missile destroyer is, as the name suggests, a destroyer designed to launch guided missiles. Many are also equipped to carry out anti-submarine, anti-air, and anti-surface operations. In the U.S. Navy, their hull classification symbol is DDG.
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List of guided missile destroyers
The following list includes only U.S. ships. Other navies also use guided missile destroyers.
- USS Gyatt (DD-712/DDG-1)
- USS Charles F. Adams (DD-952/DDG-2)
- USS John King (DD-953/DDG-3)
- USS Lawrence (DD-954/DDG-4)
- USS Claude V. Ricketts formerly USS Biddle (DD-955/DDG-5)
- USS Barney (DD-956/DDG-6)
- USS Henry B. Wilson (DD-957/DDG-7)
- USS Lynde McCormick (DD-958/DDG-8)
- USS Towers (DD-959/DDG-9)
- USS Sampson (DDG-10)
- USS Sellers (DDG-11)
- USS Robison (DDG-12)
- USS Hoel (DDG-13)
- USS Buchanan (DDG-14)
- USS Berkeley (DDG-15)
- USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16)
- USS Conyngham (DDG-17)
- USS Semmes (DDG-18)
- USS Tattnall (DDG-19)
- USS Goldsborough (DDG-20)
- USS Cochrane (DDG-21)
- USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22)
- USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23)
- USS Waddell (DDG-24)
- USS Decatur (DD-936/DDG-31)
- USS John Paul Jones (DD-932/DDG-32)
- USS Parsons (DD-949/DDG-33)
- USS Somers (DD-947/DDG-34)
- USS Mitscher (DDG-35)
- USS John S. McCain (DDG-36)
- USS Farragut (DLG-6/DDG-37)
- USS Luce (DLG-7/DDG-38)
- USS Macdonough (DLG-8/DDG-39)
- USS Coontz (DLG-9/DDG-40)
- USS King (DLG-10/DDG-41)
- USS Mahan (DLG-11/DDG-42)
- USS Dahlgren (DLG-12/DDG-43)
- USS William V. Pratt (DLG-13/DDG-44)
- USS Dewey (DLG-14/DDG-45)
- USS Preble (DLG-15/DDG-46)
- USS Ticonderoga (DDG-47)
- 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)
