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The U.S. Navy Failed for 4 Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Got Desperate
USS America was laid down in 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corporation. By 1965, she conducted her first catapult launch with a Douglas A-C4 Skyhawk.
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'4 Weeks of Explosions': The Navy Failed to Sink Their Own Aircraft Carrier
What You Need to Know: In 2005, the U.S. Navy sunk the decommissioned USS America in a classified SINKEX exercise to gather data on the resilience of supercarriers. The 30-day scuttling process ...
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The one-of-a-kind ex-USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier is heading to the scrapyard, but a new JFK flattop is coming
Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, USS America, and the Kennedy ... which has helped not only from the construction side but from our sailor training." ...