- Domain
- Sea
- NCF capability
- Maritime combat
- Military Balance category
- Principal surface combatants (destroyers
- SIPRI category
- Ships
- Evidence that places a platform here
- (?<!tank )destroyer · \bDD[GH]?\b · (?<!battle)cruiser · \bCG\b
The 24 nations
None, legacy only, modern, or modern and on order. Modern: in service from 1995, or the current generations of fighters, tanks, submarines and long-range air defence.
United StatesModern and on order · 4United KingdomModern · 1AustraliaModern · 1FranceModern and on order · 2GermanyNoneJapanModern · 10South KoreaModern · 3CanadaNoneItalyModern · 1IndiaModern · 4TürkiyeNoneSaudi ArabiaNoneBrazilNoneIndonesiaNoneMexicoNone · 5ArgentinaLegacy only · 1South AfricaNoneRussiaLegacy only · 3ChinaModern · 12IsraelLegacy only · 2UkraineNoneTaiwanNoneIranNoneNorth KoreaLegacy only · 1
Generation timeline
Each platform from its first flight or launch to today, the 40 most operated, earliest in service first. Grey is development and, after the lead operator retires it, the years other nations keep it; colour is service.
- Development, from first flight or launch
- In service, from first deployment
- After its lead operator retires it, still held elsewhere
- Today
- Flag beside the name: the home country
Dates from Wikidata: first flights or launches for 0 of these 34, retirements for 3. A bar without grey at its start has no first flight recorded.
Platforms
Ranked by the number of the 24 nations that hold each.
Fingerprints
Each nation's equipment fingerprint with only destroyer in colour.
United States Arleigh Burke-class destroyer 73, Ticonderoga-class cruiser 10, Zumwalt-class destroyer 2
United Kingdom Type 45 guided missile destroyer 6
Australia Hobart-class destroyer 3
France Horizon-class frigate 2, Amiral Ronarc'h-class frigate 1
Japan Murasame-class destroyer 9, Asagiri-class destroyer 7, Abukuma-class destroyer escort 6
South Korea Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer 6, Sejong the Great-class destroyer 5, Gwanggaeto the Great-class destroyer 3
Italy Horizon-class frigate 2
India Visakhapatnam-class destroyer 4, Delhi-class destroyer 3, Kolkata-class destroyer 3
Mexico Buckley-class destroyer escort –, Deodoro –, Edsall-class destroyer escort –
Argentina Almirante Brown-class destroyer 1
Russia Udaloy-class destroyer 8, Slava-class guided missile cruiser 2, Aurora 1
China Type 052D destroyer 35, Type 055 destroyer 10, Type 052C destroyer 6
Israel W and Z-class destroyer 2, Hunt-class destroyer 1
North Korea destroyer –