US Navy – Guided Missile Destroyers – Smartencyclopedia

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A guided-missile destroyer is designed to launch anti-aircraft 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 in their hull pennant numbering, either prefixing or dropping it altogether.

Charles F. Adams class

INFO – Charles F. Adams class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG

DDG 2 USS Charles F. Adams (1960)
DDG 3 USS John King (1961)
DDG 4 USS Lawrence (1962)
DDG 5 USS Claude V. Ricketts (1962) (ex USS Biddle)
DDG 6 USS Barney (1962)
DDG 7 USS Henry B. Wilson (1960)
DDG 8 USS Lynde McCormick (1961)
DDG 9 USS Towers (1961)
DDG 10 USS Sampson (1961)
DDG 11 USS Sellers (1961)
DDG 12 USS Robison (1961)
DDG 13 USS Hoel (1962)
DDG 14 USS Buchanan (1962)
DDG 15 USS Berkeley (1962) – transferred to Greece as HS Themistoklis (D 221)
DDG 16 USS Joseph Strauss (1963) – transferred to Greece as HS Formion (D 220)
DDG 17 USS Conyngham (1963)
DDG 18 USS Semmes (1962) – transferred to Greece as HS Kimon (D 218)
DDG 19 USS Tattnall (1963)
DDG 20 USS Goldsborough (1963)
DDG 21 USS Cochrane (1963)
DDG 22 USS Benjamin Stoddert (1964)
DDG 23 USS Richard E. Byrd (1964)
DDG 24 USS Waddell (1964) – transferred to Greece as HS Nearchos (D 219)

Decatur class

	INFO – Decatur (ex Forrest Sherman DD’s) class Guided Missile Destroyer
	DDG 31 USS Decatur (1956/66) – ex DD 936 DDG 32 USS John Paul Jones (1956/67) – ex DD 932 DDG 33 USS Parsons (1959/67) – ex DD 949 DDG 34 USS Somers (1959/67) – ex DD 947

Mitscher class

	INFO – Mitscher class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG
	DDG 35 USS Mitscher (1953/68) – ex DL 2 DDG 36 USS John S. McCain (1953/69) – ex DL 3

Farragut class

INFO – Farragut (Coontz) class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG

DDG 37 USS Farragut (1960/69) – ex DLG 6
DDG 38 USS Luce (1961/71) – ex DLG 7
DDG 39 USS MacDonough (1961/74) – ex DLG 8
DDG 40 USS Coontz (1960/72) – ex DLG 9
DDG 41 USS King (1960/77) – ex DLG 10
DDG 42 USS Mahan (1960/75) – ex DLG 11
DDG 43 USS Dahlgren (1961/73) – ex DLG 12
DDG 44 USS William V. Pratt (1961/75) – ex DLG 13
DDG 45 USS Dewey (1959/71) – ex DLG 14
DDG 46 USS Preble (1960/75) – ex DLG 15

Arleigh Burke class / Flight I

INFO – Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG

DDG 51 USS Arleigh Burke (1991)
DDG 52 USS Barry (1992)
DDG 53 USS John Paul Jones (1993)
DDG 54 USS Curtis Wilbur (1994)
DDG 55 USS Stout (1994)
DDG 56 USS John S. McCain (1994) + image page 2
DDG 57 USS Mitscher (1994)
DDG 58 USS Laboon (1995)
DDG 59 USS Russell (1995)
DDG 60 USS Paul Hamilton (1995)
DDG 61 USS Ramage (1995)
DDG 62 USS Fitzgerald (1995) + image page 2
DDG 63 USS Stethem (1995)
DDG 64 USS Carney (1996)
DDG 65 USS Benfold (1996)
DDG 66 USS Gonzalez (1996)
DDG 67 USS Cole (1996)
DDG 68 USS The Sullivans (1997)
DDG 69 USS Milius (1996)
DDG 70 USS Hopper (1997)
DDG 71 USS Ross (1997)

Arleigh Burke class / Flight II

	INFO – Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG
	DDG 72 USS Mahan (1998) DDG 73 USS Decatur (1998) DDG 74 USS McFaul (1998) DDG 75 USS Donald Cook (1998) + image page 2 DDG 76 USS Higgins (1999) DDG 77 USS O’Kane (1999) DDG 78 USS Porter (1999)

Arleigh Burke class / Flight IIA

INFO – Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG

Flight IIA ships – with 5″/54 gun
DDG 79 USS Oscar Austin (2000)
DDG 80 USS Roosevelt (2000)

Flight IIA ships – with 5″/62 gun
DDG 81 USS Winston S. Churchill (2001)
DDG 82 USS Lassen (2001)
DDG 83 USS Howard (2001)
DDG 84 USS Bulkeley (2001)
DDG 85 USS McCampbell (2002)
DDG 86 USS Shoup (2002)
DDG 87 USS Mason (2003)
DDG 88 USS Preble (2002)
DDG 89 USS Mustin (2003)
DDG 90 USS Chafee (2003)
DDG 91 USS Pinckney (2004)
DDG 92 USS Momsen (2004)
DDG 93 USS Chung Hoon (2004)
DDG 94 USS Nitze (2005)
DDG 95 USS James E. Williams (2004)
DDG 96 USS Bainbridge (2005)
DDG 97 USS Halsey (2005)
DDG 98 USS Forrest Sherman (2006)
DDG 99 USS Farragut (2006)
DDG 100 USS Kidd (2007)
DDG 101 USS Gridley (2007)
DDG 102 USS Sampson (2007)
DDG 103 USS Truxtun (2009)
DDG 104 USS Sterett (2008)
DDG 105 USS Dewey (2010)
DDG 106 USS Stockdale (2009)
DDG 107 USS Gravely (2010)
DDG 108 USS Wayne E. Meyer (2009)
DDG 109 USS Jason Dunham (2010)
DDG 110 USS William P. Lawrence (2011)
DDG 111 USS Spruance (2011)
DDG 112 USS Michael Murphy (2012)

Flight IIA ships – restart
DDG 113 USS John Finn (2017)
DDG 114 USS Ralph Johnson (2018)
DDG 115 USS Rafael Peralta (2017)

Flight IIA TI ships – technology insertion
DDG 116 USS Thomas Hudner (2018)
DDG 117 USS Paul Ignatius (2019)
DDG 118 USS Daniel Inouye (?)
DDG 119 USS Delbert D. Black (2020)
DDG 120 USS Carl M. Levin (?)
DDG 121 USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (?)
DDG 122 USS John Basilone (?)
DDG 123 USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (?)
DDG 124 USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (?)
DDG 127 USS Patrick Gallagher (?)

Arleigh Burke class / Flight III

INFO Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG

DDG 125 USS Jack H. Lucas (?)
DDG 126 USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (?)
DDG 128 USS Ted Stevens (?)
DDG 129 USS Jeremiah Denton (?)
DDG 130 USS William Charette (?)
DDG 131 USS George M. Neal (?)
DDG 132 USS Quentin Walsh (?)
DDG 133 USS Sam Nunn (?)
DDG 134 USS John E. Kilmer (?)
DDG 135 USS Thad Cochran (?)
DDG 136 USS Richard G. Lugar (?)
DDG 137 USS John F. Lehman (?)
DDG 138 USS ?
DDG 139 USS ?

Kidd class

	INFO – Kidd class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG
	DDG 993 USS Kidd (1981) DDG 994 USS Callaghan (1981) DDG 995 USS Scott (1981) DDG 996 USS Chandler (1982)

Zumwalt class

	INFO – Zumwalt class Guided Missile Destroyer / DDG
	DDG 1000 USS Zumwalt (2016) DDG 1001 USS Michael Monsoor (2019?) DDG 1002 USS Lyndon B. Johnson (2019?)

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