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USS Enterprise: This Might Be America's Best Aircraft Carrier Ever
These blasts blew eight holes in the flight deck, allowing burning fuel to spill onto the decks below. The decommissioning of CVN-65 was not the end of USS Enterprise. CVN-80, the third Ford-class ...
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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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The USS Tripoli, the Navy's newest F-35 'lightning carrier,' is headed to the Indo-Pacific, bolstering US air power near China
It replaces the USS America as the Navy's amphibious assault ship based ... The first Yulan-class landing helicopter assault ship has a flight deck as large as three football fields, about as long as ...