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Ships in class: 25 total: 14 Project 956; 9 Project 956A; 2 Project 956ME; Operators: Soviet Navy, Russian Navy, People's Liberation Army Navy; Commissioned: 25 December 1980; Status: 2 in service with Russia, 4 with People's Republic of China; 2 awaiting disposal; 4 cancelled before completion; 2 scrapped
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
USS Gridley, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer The first automotive torpedo was developed in 1866, and the torpedo boat was developed soon after. In 1898, while the Spanish–American War was being fought in the Caribbean and the Pacific, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt wrote that the Spanish torpedo boat destroyers were the only threat to the American navy, and pushed for ...
Acasta or K class — 20 ships; Swift type — 1 ship; Laforey or L class — 22 ships; Arno type — 1 ship; Admiralty M class — 74 ships; Hawthorn M class — 2 ships; Yarrow M class — 10 ships; Thornycroft M class — 6 ships; Talisman class — 4 ships; Medea class — 4 ships; Faulknor class leader — 4 ships; Marksman class leader ...
USS Edson (DD-946) is a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer, formerly of the United States Navy, built by Bath Iron Works in Maine in 1958. Her home port was Long Beach, California and she initially served in the Western Pacific/Far East, operating particularly in the Taiwan Strait and off the coast of Vietnam.
The Arleigh Burke-class ships are among the largest destroyers built in the United States; [16] only the Spruance, Kidd (563 ft or 172 m), and Zumwalt classes (600 ft or 180 m) are longer. The Arleigh Burke class was designed with a new large, water-plane area-hull form characterized by a wide flaring bow, which significantly improves ...
USS Maddox (DD-622), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after United States Marine Corps Captain William A. T. Maddox, who served in the Mexican–American War.