Guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG-65) conducted a previously unannounced Taiwan Strait transit earlier this month, Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, told reporters on ...

USS Benfold (DDG-65) ... The report tagged USS Benfold a "habitual offender in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Straits" and said the U.S. vessel's aim was to "stir up trouble." ...

On July 13 (local time) USS Benfold (DDG 65) asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands, consistent with international law.

China is fuming over the United States Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG-65) that traversed South China Sea's territorial waters off Paracel Islands. China has now termed USS ...

US Navy destroyer USS Benfold (DDG-65) conducted freedom of navigation operations in Paracel Islands on July 13. China PLA Southern Theater Command released the image of the encounter for the ...

Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Benfold (DDG-65) is seen anchored in Kanagawa-Prefecture, Japan, in June 2023. On Tuesday, the keel for the future destroyer USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132), the ...

The Navy announced then that the USS Preble would replace the USS Benfold (DDG 65), which was set to leave Yokosuka and move to Everett, Washington.

In this photo provided by U.S. Navy, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) conducts routine underway operations in the Philippines Sea on June 24, 2022.

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65), forward-deployed to the US 7th Fleet area of operations, conducts underway operations in the South China Sea, ...

BEIJING (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy on Saturday said in a statement the USS Benfold carried out what it calls a “freedom of navigation operation” in the South China Sea near the Spratly Islands.

In this photo provided by US Navy, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) conducts routine underway operations in the Philippines Sea on June 24. (AP/FILE) ...