destroyer
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The latest DDX model of destroyer features high levels of digitalization and automation, the two companies said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
He added that the escort destroyer ships policing the blockade of Iran “are just as bad off, if not worse.”
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 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
That impression was not helped by the tardiness of mobilising the destroyer HMS Dragon – built by BAE - to provide air cover for Cyprus against Iranian and Hezbollah threats.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
But words were the atoms in my father’s universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
The U.S. currently has 19 warships in the waters of the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers and 13 guided-missile destroyers, according to a Navy official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Plant an Afterlife garden, fighting to grow something in a realm of destroyers?
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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