Old soldiers (and old sailors for that matter) may fade away, but modern warships meet a crueler fate: they head to the scrap yard and are "broken up" after their years of service. It begins with a ...

USS Kitty Hawk will have to go all the way down to the tip of South America and back up because it is too big to get through the Panama Canal. USS Kitty Hawk CV63, the last conventionally powered ...

The United States aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is on its way to a scrapyard in Texas and too large to slip through the Panama Canal, the ship must sail around South America. In her 16,000-mile ...

updates flight information on a board in the USS Kitty Hawk’s air traffic control center. The carrier spent its first few days out at sea qualifying pilots for carrier landings. Each pilot must ...

After 35 years of service, the USS Philippine Sea has left Norfolk Naval Station on its final deployment. The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser will join a task force to deter illicit activity ...

NORFOLK, Va. — After more than three decades of service, the Norfolk-based USS Philippine Sea set sail Monday for what was expected to be the ship's final deployment. The Norfolk-based guided ...

After USS Kitty Hawk was retired in 2009 ... through the Delaware Bay and into the North Atlantic Ocean,” Naval Sea Systems stated. Finally, while this does mark the end of the line for CV ...