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The U.S. Navy Failed for 4 Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Got Desperate
When the Kitty Hawk-class carrier was decommissioned almost one decade earlier, the Navy decided to conduct a study involving how a colossal ship would respond to explosions on board instead of ...
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Here's An Idea: Could the Navy Sell Old Aircraft Carriers?
The vessels were latter employed as a training ship and barracks ship respectively ... with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). Instead, the Kitty Hawk may end up like those WWII warships ...
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Carrier USS John F. Kennedy goes to the breakers
The USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy’s last non-nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is at Brownsville, Texas, to begin a two-year ...
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The final voyage of the USS Kitty Hawk: America's flagship and key aircraft carrier in Vietnam was sold for less than a dollar
Kitty Hawk was the last American oil-powered aircraft ... Still, the incident, along with others on Navy ships, prompted service leaders to place new emphasis on programs previously initiated ...
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USS Constellation carrier towed to the scrapyard along the coast of South America
The US Navy said the decommissioned flattop ... where it has been docked at a site for inactive ships. Two other decommissioned carriers, Kitty Hawk and Ranger, are also expected to be scrapped.
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The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk crossed to the Atlantic after a brief call at Punta Arenas
Navy Times reports that Kitty Hawk was the first carrier of its class ... be awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for heroism. The ship saw action all over the Pacific, including the Iraq War ...