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USS The Sullivans
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The guided missile destroyer is, when the title suggests, a destroyer designed to launch guided missiles. Numbers of come too equipped to carry out anti-submarine, anti-air, and anti-surface operations. In the U.S. Navy, their hull classification symbol is DDG.

Active Guided Missile Destroyers:

List of DDGs of the Marine nationale

FS Forbin (D620) FS Chevalier Paul (D621) FS Duquesne (D603) FS Cassard (D614) FS Jean Bart (D615) FS Tourville D610 FS De Grasse D612 FS Georges Leygues D640 FS Dupleix D641 FS Montcalm D642 FS Jean de Vienne D643 FS Primauguet D644 FS La Motte Picquet D645 FS Latouche-Tréville D646

List of DDGs of the Marina Militare

Ardito (D550) Audace (D551) Luigi Durand De La Penne (D 560) Francesco Mimbelli (D 561)

List of DDGs of the Royal Navy

HMS Exeter (D89) HMS Nottingham (D91) HMS Southampton (D90) HMS Liverpool (D92) HMS Manchester (D95) HMS Edinburgh (D97) HMS Gloucester (D96) HMS York (D98)

List of DDGs of the US Navy

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)

U.S. Naval Institute
Statistics, details, and an interactive graphic of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile desroyer.






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