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Nothing Can Kill the Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer (Credits- US Military News)

Top 10 Biggest Destroyers of 2022 (Credits- Military TV)

Farewell USS The Sullivans. Sail past as she left the UK Carrier Strike Group (Credits- Navy Lookout)

The Evolution of U.S. Navy Destroyers (Credits- Military TV)

Know the Battle Ship- Destroyer

USS Zumwalt ( DD-X Class), Pic courtesy- Wikimedia commons and US Navy ( Today we start a weekly series called Know the battle ship. In each series we focus on a particular class of warships, their evolution and their present and future role. We start with the Destroyers, today considered the most potent surface combatant after Aircraft Carriers) In  naval  terminology, a  destroyer  is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance  warship  intended to escort larger vessels in a  fleet ,  convoy  or  battle group  and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. The first ship named and classified as a destroyer was the  Spanish warship Destructor (1886) , designed by Fernando Villaamil and constructed in England in the shipyard of James and George Thomson of Clydebank, near the Yarrow shipyards. By the time of the  Russo-Japanese War  in 1904, Torpedo Boat Destroyers (TBD) were "large, swift, and powerfully armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other t