![]() Port bow view of the USS Benfold (DDG 65) underway in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Name | Benfold |
Namesake | Edward Clyde Benfold |
Ordered | 16 January 1991 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 27 September 1993 |
Launched | 9 November 1994 |
Commissioned | 30 March 1996 |
Homeport | Yokosuka |
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Motto | Onward with valor! |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Status | in active service |
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Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
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Length | 505 ft (154 m) |
Beam | 59 ft (18 m) |
Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Installed power | 3 × Rolls-Royce AG9130F (Allison 501-K34) (2.5 MW Each) |
Propulsion | 2 × shafts |
Speed | In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Range | 4,400 nmi (8,100 km; 5,100 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Sikorsky MH-60R |
USS Benfold (DDG-65) is a Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is a multi-mission platform capable of anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) with the powerful Aegis Combat System suite and anti-aircraft missiles, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), with towed sonar array, anti-submarine rockets, anti-surface warfare (ASUW) with Harpoon missiles, and strategic land strike using Tomahawk missiles. Benfold was one of the first ships fitted with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and during the 2010 Stellar Daggers exercise was the first ship to simultaneously engage a ballistic missile and a cruise missile.[4]
Former Benfold commanding officers include Admiral Mark Ferguson, Admiral Michael Gilday, Vice Admiral Thomas H. Copeman III, and author D. Michael Abrashoff.[5]