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It arrived in eastern Thailand along with the USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., a guided-missile destroyer that had also been deployed in the Middle East, and the USS Robert Smalls, a guided-missile cruiser.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The navigation effort has largely happened at night, with ships turning off their automatic identification systems while a U.S. destroyer stays in radio contact with the bridge and the shipowner’s operations center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Plans to replace ageing destroyer warships will be scrapped in favour of at least six new modern "hybrid" vessels equipped to deploy drones in the UK's upcoming defence plan.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

This motley pile, big enough to man a destroyer, is working together to literally support their sister’s audacious rise.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Oppenheimer thought of a line from the ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita, a dramatic moment in which the god Vishnu declares: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

The Zumwalt class of naval destroyers was lauded for its “affordable and flexible design.”

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Navy currently has 17 ships in the Middle East, including two aircraft-carrier strike groups, along with their 11 combined destroyers and a Marine Corps expeditionary unit, according to a naval official.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Meanwhile, the U.K. recently said it would build vessels designed to act as mother ships to drones instead of replacing its fleet of destroyers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

The Royal Navy's ageing but capable Type 45 destroyers will no longer be replaced by the planned Type 83 destroyers.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Plant an Afterlife garden, fighting to grow something in a realm of destroyers?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman