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- This article is about the warship. For other meaning, see destroyer (disambiguation).
In naval terminology, a destroyer (French: "contre-torpilleur", German: "Zerstörer", Spanish: "destructor", Italian: "cacciatorpediniere", Russian: Esminets (Escadrenniy minonosets) - Эсминец (Эскадренный миноносец), Polish "niszczyciel") is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft).
At the beginning of the 21st century, destroyers are the heaviest surface combatant vessels in general use, with only two nations (the United States and Russia) operating cruisers and none operating battleships.Although there are currently no active battleships in any navy the United States navy still maintains two Iowa-class battleships, and could reactivate one or both if necessary though unlikely. Modern destroyers are equivalent in tonnage but drastically superior in firepower to cruisers of the World War II era, capable of carrying nuclear missiles able to destroy cities in a very small volley.
Genesis of the destroyer
The destroyer originated in the United Kingdom and Japan in the last years of the 1880s, and became firmly established after the Chilean Civil War of 1891 and in the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895). In those conflicts, a new type of ship proved to be devastatingly effective—the swift, small torpedo boat invented by John Ericsson. Among the first ships to use the self-propelled torpedo was HNoMS Rap built by Thornycroft in 1873. It and the boats that followed were small cheap to build, fast, and any of them could potentiallly sink a battleship. More on [ Destroyer ]
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