Origin United Kingdom
Type Destroyer
Year 1976
Displacement, tons 3 500
Dimensions, meters 119.5 x 14.3 x 5.8
Aircraft 1 x helicopter
Missiles 8 x Sea Dart (SAM)
Guns 1 x 115mm/55 2 x 20mm Oerlikon
Torpedo 6 x 533mm
Main Engines 2 x Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines. 56 000 Shp
Speed, knots 29
Range, miles 4 000
Complement 253

Type 42 , also known as the Sheffield class , is a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy. The class was designed in the late 1960s to provide area air defence. In total fourteen vessels were constructed, eleven of which remain in service. The ships, with the Type 23 frigates, today form the backbone of the Royal Navy surface fleet. Sheffield and Coventry were lost in the Falklands War due to enemy action. The Type 42 Destroyer was built to fill in the gap left by the cancellation of the Type 82 destroyer, it was however, designed to be smaller and more cost effective. The primary weapon is the Sea Dart surface-to-air missile. Although claimed to be obsolete, it is still effective against most modern missile threats, as proven by the 1991 Gulf War. The Type 42 is also equipped with a 4.5 inch (114mm) main gun, six torpedo launchers, and two Vulcan Phalanx Mk.15 Close-In Weapons Systems (CIWS) were fitted after the loss of the Sheffield to an Exocet missile. There have been three batches of ships, Batch 1 & 2 displacing 4,820 tonnes and Batch 3 (sometimes referred to as the Manchester class ) displacing 5,200 tonnes. As per the norm, Batch 3 ships were heavily upgraded. Although the Batch 3 ships were lengthened, the planned Sea Wolf missile systems were never fitted. In recent years the importance of the Type 42 destroyers has increased rather than diminished. The UK has adopted an increasingly expeditionary defence policy and the deletion of the Sea Wolf missile systems from the Invincible class aircraft carriers has made the role of escort all the more important.

Origin Japan
Type Destroyer
Year 1980
Displacement, tons 5 200
Dimensions, meters 159.0 x 17.5 x 5.3
Aircraft 3 x helicopter
Missiles 8 x Sea Sparrow (SAM) 8 x ASROC
Guns 2 x 127mm/54 2 x 20mm CIWS
Torpedo 6 x 533mm
Main Engines 2 x turbines. 70 000 Shp
Speed, knots 32
Range, miles 4 000
Complement 350

A modern destroyer with improved anti-air capabilities. Built by Ishikawajima Harima in Tokyo and laid down in 1977.

Origin Soviet Union
Type Destroyer
Year 1949
Displacement, tons 2 240
Dimensions, meters 120.5 x 11.9 x 4.6
Aircraft -
Missiles -
Guns 4 x 130mm/50 2 x 85mm 8 x 37mm 4 x 25mm
Torpedo 10 x 533mm
Main Engines 2 x turbines. 60 000 Shp
Speed, knots 33
Range, miles 3 900
Complement 280

A total of 85 ships where built between 1949 & 1954 at the Nikolayev , Severodvisnk and Leningrad ship yards. There where originally 3 different types of design. But in Cold War Online it has only one class. Can also carry up to 80 mines.

Origin USA
Type Destroyer
Year 1975
Displacement, tons 5 830
Dimensions, meters 171.7 x 16.8 x 8.8
Aircraft 1 x helicopter
Missiles 8 x Harpoon 8 x Sea Sparrow 8 x ASROC
Guns 2 x 127mm/54 2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Torpedo 6 x 533mm
Main Engines 4 x GE LM2500 gas turbines. 80 000 Shp
Speed, knots 33
Range, miles 6 000
Complement 296

The Spruance -class destroyer was developed as a replacement for a large number of World War II-built Allen M. Sumner - and Gearing -class destroyers, and was the primary destroyer built for the U.S. Navy during the 1970s. The class was originally designed for anti-submarine warfare with only point defense missiles for the AAW role although subsequent upgrades have provided anti-ship and land attack capabilities. The class are notable for being the first large U.S. Navy ships to use gas turbine power. Spruance-class vessels are powered by four General Electric LM2500 gas turbines generating approximately 80,000 horsepower (60 MW). This configuration was so successful that the entire hull and physical plant of the Spruance class was used unchanged for the later Kidd -class destroyers, and a slightly lengthened version of the hull was used for the Ticonderoga -class cruisers. The entire class of thirty ships was contracted with a single shipyard to facilitate mass construction on 23 June 1970 although labor and technical problems delayed construction. One additional ship, USS Hayler (DD-997), was ordered on 29 September 1979 .

Origin France
Type Destroyer
Year 1967
Displacement, tons 5 090
Dimensions, meters 157.6 x 15.5 x 6.1
Aircraft -
Missiles 4 x Exocet MM38 2 x Masurca
Guns 2 x 100mm 4 x 20mm
Torpedo 6 x 533mm
Main Engines 2 x turbines. 72 500 Shp
Speed, knots 34
Range, miles 5 100
Complement 355

The Suffren type anti-air frigates are large vessels of the French Navy, designed to protect a fleet against air threats, surface ships, submarines, and, to a lesser extend, provide fire power against land objectives. Note: The French navy doesn't use the term "destroyer" for its ships; thusly, some large ships, referred to as "frigates", are registered as destroyers.