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USS Nimitz Is Sailing Its Final Deployment in the Indo-Pacific
USS Nimitz is set to undergo its decommissioning process at Newport News Shipyard, Virginia. A fter Secretary of Defense Pete ...
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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 ...
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From USS Nimitz to USS Ranger: Aircraft carriers homeported in Bremerton over the decades
Besides hosting three aircraft carriers for a few days, Bremerton also had four carriers in the mothball fleet — Kitty Hawk, Constellation, Independence and Ranger at that time. The USS Carl ...
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A U-2 Spy Plane On an Aircraft Carrier? The CIA Tried It Once
In August 1963, in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness, a Navy crane was used to hoist a U-2 onto the deck of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier. As the Kitty Hawk steamed north from ...
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In 2026 USS Nimitz will move to Norfolk, start decommissioning
The time to say goodbye to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier forever is getting closer — both for Washingtonians and the rest of the nation. In approximately a year the Navy's oldest active ...
From USS Nimitz to USS Ranger: Aircraft carriers homeported in Bremerton over the decades
With the arrival of the USS Ronald Reagan in Bremerton in 2024, the city now hosts two Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft ...