What was the combat experience of a British battle class destroyer?

There are too many destroyers in the United States, and the Fletcher-class destroyers with the best comprehensive performance in World War II alone have completed 175 destroyers in 2 years from 42.

In 1939, Britain had 193 destroyers, and the Royal Navy's destroyers in European waters were: 17 destroyers under the Home Fleet; 9 ships under the jurisdiction of the North Atlantic Fleet; In addition, about 65 destroyers are concentrated in the local waters to carry out escort and patrol duties. The Mediterranean region has:

The Mediterranean Fleet has 31 destroyers; Pacific: 15 destroyers at the beginning of the war against Japan. At the same time, the British army also established three escort systems in the west, with Liverpool, Greenwich, and Londonderry as the center, and 70 destroyers under its jurisdiction.

United States: There are about 217 destroyers. The Pacific Fleet has 171 destroyers; In February 1941, the Atlantic Fleet commanded 27 ships; In November 42, the U.S. Western Naval Task Force had 19 destroyers under its jurisdiction.

The above US military data are based on the statistics of the US fleet in the early days of the war.

I'm afraid it's not an accurate number, sorry.

It's hard to count, but that's going to add up to more than a thousand.

<> Pratt-class destroyers: epoch-making destroyers of the British Royal Navy.

The Pratt-class (formerly county-class) destroyer was an epoch-making destroyer of the British Royal Navy.

In 1949, the United Kingdom began to develop the Seaslug medium-range anti-aircraft missile to enhance the air defense capabilities of aircraft carrier battle groups. To carry such missiles, the Royal Navy proposed a series of anti-aircraft destroyers and anti-aircraft cruisers, but only a smaller and inexpensive one was selected in 1956. The result of this scheme is the "county" class with a standard displacement of 5,440 tons.

A total of 8 ships were built at the county level, in two batches. The cost was 13.8 million to 16.8 million pounds, and the operating cost of each ship was 4.9 million pounds (calculated according to 1976**, not including ***). The second group of ships has been improved in terms of layout, armament and electronic equipment.

For the first time, this class of ships uses a gas turbine-steam turbine composite propulsion unit, which has strong acceleration. The whole ship also has the ability to resist chemicals, atoms, and stuffy organisms.

The county-level has been in service for a relatively early period, and some small-scale modifications have been made one after another, such as the installation of anti-ship missile launchers and electronic warfare systems, and they have also been modernized and modified after being transferred to other countries, such as Chile, which has modified Israel's "Barak" air defense missile vertical launch system.

In addition, the equipment is also equipped with 4 French Aerospace MM38 "Exocet" anti-ship missile launchers; 2 eight-pack IAI Rafael "Barak" 1 anti-aircraft missile launchers; 2 Vickers 115 mm (in) MK6 semi-automatic twin naval guns, 2 or 4 Erikon 20 mm MK9 naval guns; 6 x 324 mm MK32 torpedo tubes (2 x triple mounted), Honeywell MK46MOD2 torpedoes; SLQ-25 "Water Spirit" towed blinking torpedo noise decoy device; 2 (1 on the Pratt) "Nudanio" NAS332C "Puma" anti-submarine search ***.

After the redesign, in October 1893, the British Navy built the world's first destroyer, the "Havoc", then called the "torpedo boat destroyer", and soon after changed its name to the "destroyer", as for why the Chinese called destroyer, there is no way to test, it is likely to come from Japan. As can be seen from its name, the mission of the early destroyers was to defend the Navy from enemy torpedo boats.

By the eve of World War I, Britain, Germany, Russia, France, the United States, Japan and other countries had built nearly 600 destroyers. These destroyers have a full load displacement of 1000 1300 tons, a speed of 30 37 knots, and are mostly equipped with steam turbine main power units, equipped with several 88 102 mm naval guns and 2 3 450 533 mm torpedo launchers.

During the Second World War, destroyers became the most numerous in the navies of many countries. In the 50s of the 20th century, guided missile destroyers appeared, armed with ship-to-air missiles, ship-to-ship missiles and anti-submarine missiles. In 1953, the United States built the "Mitchell"-class guided missile destroyer, with a full load displacement of 5,200 tons, and was equipped with "Tatar" ship-to-air missiles.

In 1957, the Soviet Union built the "Kilding"-class missile destroyer, with a full load displacement of 3,500 tons, and was equipped with "SS-N-1" ship-based missiles. Britain, France, Canada, Japan, and other countries have also built missile destroyers one after another. After the 60s, most destroyers used a combined diesel-gas turbine power unit or an all-gas turbine power plant; It is generally equipped with advanced electronic equipment such as anti-submarine equipment, ship command and control automation system and electronic countermeasure system.

It will further increase endurance and improve the rapid response capability of air defense and anti-submarine forces.

After the 70s, the displacement of destroyers tended to be larger; Adopt gas turbine or combined power unit, and install energy system; improve the search and anti-submarine capabilities of carriers; universal equipping with anti-missile defense systems; further strengthen the air-to-sea detection capability and improve the command and control automation system; Strengthen the electronic countermeasure system and improve the ability to resist guidance** and electronic countermeasures.

Originally, the original intention of developing the destroyer was mainly to let it strike at torpedo boats and carry them to attack enemy giant ships with torpedoes. It can be seen that at that time, people let it serve as an auxiliary force of the naval ** force with battleships and cruisers as the core force. The destroyer's ** is mainly torpedoes and artillery, so it is also called a "thunderbolt ship".

However, in actual combat, on the one hand, people expanded the body of the destroyer, so that its endurance and shipboard capacity continued to increase; On the other hand, more and more ** are constantly installed on the destroyer, so that it can hit multiple targets with a variety of **. In 1935, when Italy invaded Ethiopia, it dispatched a large number of combat aircraft. The navies of various countries were inspired by this:

Aviation forces are no less a threat to the sea fleet, which should have sufficient air defense. Not only are there plenty of aircraft on aircraft carriers to confront enemy air power, but destroyers should also take on a common air defense mission. By 1939, air defense destroyers appeared in the world - the ships were equipped with the most advanced air defense ** at that time.

Immediately after that, the navies of many countries let destroyers take on the tasks of laying mines, patrolling, escorting ships, and providing landing support. It turned out that these destroyers, which were not too big or small, were capable of fulfilling the tasks entrusted to them. With the advent of depth charges, destroyers took on anti-submarine tasks.

The Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer is the most famous first-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy in World War II, and was designed to counter the large destroyers of other countries, such as Japan's Fukiyuki-class.

Although the Tribal class is larger and more armed than the fleet destroyers built in the past, it is no different from a regular destroyer in actual use. The Tribal-class destroyers have been in service since 1938 and have been fighting on the front line for many years. Of the 16 tribal-class ships in service in the British Navy, only 4 remained at the end of the war.

However, several Battle-class destroyers have been in service with foreign navies for decades. In 1967, the British handed over the "Sluis" to the Iranian Navy, which was renamed "Atmiz", and it is believed to be the main ship of the Iranian Navy until the mid-90s, with a life cycle of 50 years. The "Gabbard" and "Cádiz" were transferred to the Pakistan Navy in 1956 and 1957 respectively, and were renamed "Full Moon" and "Khaibar".

In 1971, the USS Haybar was sunk by the Indian Navy's Wasp-class missile boats with SS-N-2 Styx anti-ship missiles during the third war between India and Pakistan, and the Full Moon was not decommissioned until the early 90s.

The pilots of the British seaplanes dropped two incendiary bombs from the air on the German destroyer, and suddenly the German ship "Anim" burst into flames, and the crew members who were lucky enough not to be burned to death jumped into the sea to escape. This time the Germans were really defeated.