Destroyer/Related Articles

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• Adams-class [r]: Multirole U.S. designed destroyers, retired from the U.S. Navy in the 1990s and retired from the Royal Australian Navy in 2001; replaced by the Burke-class ^[e]
• Burke-class destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fletcher-class [r]: A U.S.-designed destroyer of Second World War vintage, armed with 5"-38 caliber guns and anti-aircraft autocannon, torpedoes, and depth charges. More were built than any other type; some served into the 21st century with other navies ^[e]
• Kongo-class [r]: Destroyers currently in service with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (i.e., Japanese Navy), which are licensed copies of the U.S. Burke-class and are being upgraded for ballistic missile defense ^[e]
• Sovremenny-class destroyer [r]: Soviet-designed destroyer, in service with the Russian and Chinese navies, with an extremely powerful Moskit anti-shipping missile armament ^[e]
• Spruance-class destroyer [r]: A retired class of United States Navy destroyers, built on the same hull as the Burke-class but optimized for land attack and anti-submarine warfare, without the AEGIS battle management system ^[e]
• Type 42-class destroyer [r]: British destroyer class, optimized for anti-air warfare, some of which were sunk and some of which were a key part of the fleet defense in the Falklands War ^[e]
• Type 45-class destroyer [r]: The latest class of British destroyer, a large multirole ship with very strong anti-air warfare capabilities, with the first vessel on sea trials ^[e]
• Udaloy-class [r]: Soviet-designed destroyer, principally optimized for anti-submarine warfare, in service with the Russian Navy ^[e]