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  2. List of destroyers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Destroyer - Wikipedia

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    USS Arleigh Burke, the lead ship of her class of guided-missile destroyers The destroyers of the US Navy's Zumwalt class, pictured here sailing with a Independence-class littoral combat ship (rear) are the longest and heaviest destroyers currently in service The Italian Caio Duilio belongs to the Horizon class of Franco-Italian designed first-rate frigates

  4. List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Guided-missile destroyer - Wikipedia

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    Ticonderoga-class cruiser was designated as the DDG-47 class in its early development, prior to the United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification, which made it the CG-47 class. The first Arleigh Burke -class destroyer was designated DDG-51, as the hull numbers DDG-47-50 had been used for Ticonderoga -class ships.

  6. List of naval ship classes in service - Wikipedia

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    Ships in class: 2 RBNS Mashhoor (12) and RBNS Al-Areen (13) Operator: Royal Bahrain Naval Force; Commissioned: 2 in 2021; Flyvefisken (Standardflex 300 or SF300)-class patrol boat. Builder: Denmark; Displacement: 320 tons; Operators: Royal Danish Navy: 10 in service, 1 decommissioned in 2006

  7. DDG(X) - Wikipedia

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    Because the cruisers were built on the Spruance-class destroyer hulls, they had limited upgrade potential due to space, weight, and power margins. [6] [7] Meanwhile, the procurement of the Zumwalt-class destroyers was severely curtailed due to high costs and a renewed emphasis on air and missile defense for larger combatants. [8]

  8. List of destroyer classes of the Indian Navy - Wikipedia

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    The Kolkata-class destroyers were preceded by the Delhi-class destroyer which entered service with the 1997 of its lead ship, INS Delhi. The Delhi class were the first destroyers built in India. The Rajput-class destroyers, which preceded the Delhi class, consists of five ships built in the Soviet Union and were commissioned from 1980 to 1990. [10]

  9. Arleigh Burke-class destroyer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...