At the Silver Jubilee, the Royal Navy had 69 destroyers and frigates, now it has 19.
Duncan is the last of six destroyers to be built at the Clyde yard.
That will include deploying Raytheon's antimissile missiles aboard Aegis destroyers and land-based Patriot batteries.
Also on sale currently are three Type-42 destroyers - HMS Exeter, HMS Southampton and HMS Nottingham.
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Mr Webster said the joy at receiving the destroyers order was mixed with trepidation.
Besides new submarines and destroyers, the South Koreans, like the Japanese, are commissioning helicopter-carriers.
The fleet of frigates and destroyers will also be reduced from 23 to 19 by 2020.
The last of the Royal Navy's Type 42 destroyers has returned to Portsmouth from its final deployment.
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The Type 45s will replace the Navy's ageing fleet of Type 42 destroyers, such as HMS Glasgow.
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From 1977 to 2005, existing companies were net job destroyers, losing 1 million net jobs per year.
Virtually all net job growth comes from startups, while existing firms are actually net job destroyers.
Recruits will be trained on screens replicating equipment on the latest type 45 destroyers and existing ships.
That will include deploying Lockheed Martin's electronics and Raytheon's antimissile missiles aboard Aegis destroyers and land-based Patriot batteries.
The Scotstoun yard has now completed a decade of work on the UK's new generation of six destroyers.
The US says it is also sending two destroyers to the coast of Libya as a precautionary measure.
The navy's fleet of destroyers and frigates was cut to 25, about the minimum that is currently imaginable.
This was a three-way contest between merchant ships, German submarines and Allied destroyers.
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It says the Chinese navy possesses about 75 principal surface combatants, like destroyers and frigates, and around 60 submarines.
Critics now condemn Moses and his imitators as destroyers, not improvers, of cities.
There are references to a Royal Navy with only 12 frigates and destroyers or an RAF with just 80 combat aircraft.
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Sir David said one of his "biggest concerns" was about the number of frigates and destroyers in the Royal Navy fleet.
It has been buying advanced combat aircraft, destroyers and submarines from Russia.
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In 1942, in the first phase of the Battle of Java Sea, three Allied destroyers and a cruiser were sunk by the Japanese.
The big stars are the ferocious, Aegis-class destroyers to which the Navy allowed exclusive access, says Mr. Berg, a lifelong Naval history buff.
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It is the last of the Type 42 class to go on active operations before they are replaced by new generation Type 45 destroyers.
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The largest of the Type 42 destroyers built for the Royal Navy, it was launched in 1983 and served in the 2003 Iraq war.
BBC: HMS Edinburgh returns to Portsmouth from final deployment
Washington and Tokyo are working on a joint missile-defense shield, and South Korea is considering the purchase of American SM-2 defensive missiles for its destroyers.
Defender is the fifth of the navy's six new Type 45 destroyers to be commissioned, following HMS Daring, HMS Dauntless, HMS Diamond and HMS Dragon.
The destroyers won't start getting built for 18 months to two years and I'm afraid we're still back to that question of the ro-ro ferries.
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