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USS Gyatt (DD-712/DDG-1/DDG-712) was a Gearing-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. The ship was named for Edward Earl Gyatt, a United States Marine Corps private and Marine Raider who was killed during the Battle of Guadalcanal. Laid down in 1944, the destroyer was commissioned in 1945 and missed combat during the Second World War. In 1955, she was converted into the world's first guided missile destroyer (DDG), and operated as a testbed for the Terrier guided surface-to-air missile. During the 1960s, she continued to test new radars and other systems before she was decommissioned and sunk as a target in 1970.