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The U.S. Navy Failed for 4 Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Got Desperate
What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large ...
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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 ...
Big ships turned into artificial reefs like SS United States? SW Florida has warship in Gulf
SS United States is set to become the world's biggest artificial reef in Florida's Gulf. Southwest Florida has it's own version.
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Where is the SS United States now? How to track ship's route along Florida's Gulf coast
The SS United States, the world's fastest ocean liner dubbed "America's Flagship," is taking ... the vessel will be sunk off Destin-Fort Walton Beach in Florida. After a remediation process ...