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USS Kitty Hawk en route to the scrap yard in Texas, via the southern tip of South America
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 ...
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Farewell to a legend: USS John F. Kennedy heads to scrap yard
On Thursday, January 16, the American Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) began its final journey. The vessel, measuring 1,053 feet in length and with a displacement of ...
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The U.S. Navy Failed for 4 Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Got Desperate
The history of USS America USS America (CVA/CV-66) was one of three Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers designed for the Navy in the 1960’s. Built to be more capable than their Forrestal-class ...
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The aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk crossed to the Atlantic after a brief call at Punta Arenas
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 ...