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The U.S. Navy Failed for 4 Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Got Desperate
USS Kitty Hawk was overhauled in the late 1980s as ... The same year, America sailed for her first deployment to the Mediterranean. She later participated in a simulated conventional warfare ...
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The Navy Tried for 4 Weeks to Sink Their Own Aircraft Carrier and Failed
The USS America, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was deliberately sunk in 2005 during a “SinkEx” live-fire exercise to ...
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From USS Nimitz to USS Ranger: Aircraft carriers homeported in Bremerton over the decades
The ship left Bremerton in 2005 for a global deployment and its new homeport in Virginia. The USS Kitty Hawk (CVA 63) arrived in Bremerton in September 2008 and was decommissioned at PSNS and ...
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USS Constellation carrier towed to the scrapyard along the coast of South America
Constellation went on 21 deployments throughout the world ... their sailors and officers home”. The USS Constellation (CV-64) was a Kitty Hawk class super-carrier and one of the fastest of ...
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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
The USS Kitty Hawk was once the greatest symbol of U.S ... Race riots erupted on the ship amid mounting tensions, after its deployment in Vietnam spread following a stopover in the Philippine ...
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Gringo-Gaucho drills this week with USS George Washington
and Search and Seizure deployments, among other topics. Similar joint drills took place in 1990 involving the US carrier Abraham Lincoln and was encored in 1991 with the USS Kitty Hawk ...