The guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) conducts routine underway operations. Russell is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific. U.S. Navy Photo
A U.S. guided-missile destroyer performed a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea on Wednesday, U.S. 7th Fleet announced.
Destroyer USS Russell (DDG-59) sailed near the Spratly Islands, 7th Fleet said in a news release.
“This freedom of navigation operation (‘FONOP’)...
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