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He said the eight sailors included "the Lincoln crew and sailors from the carrier airwing, strike group and destroyer squadron staff, escorting destroyers and all embarked aviation squadrons".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Nearby were a Japanese Aegis destroyer, a South Korean tank-landing ship and a Canadian patrol submarine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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’s recollection of his own reaction has been oft repeated; he claimed that a verse from the Sanskrit Bhagavad Gita leaped into his mind: “ ‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.’

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali signed a 3.7 billion euro agreement to supply two destroyers to the Italian navy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

The Pentagon sent two Navy guided-missile destroyers through Hormuz in April at the height of the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

It is certainly a dramatic transformation away from expensive big-ticket items like destroyers, towards large numbers of much cheaper and more expendable weapons.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

“There’s something wrong out here. Those destroyers are talking about hits, but where are the metal-to-metal sparks? And the boat wakes—where are they? And boat gun flashes?”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin