Famed Aircraft Carrier USS Kitty Hawk Is On Her Final Voyage To The Scrapper’s Torch
The USS Kitty Hawk will be broken up and recycled in Texas after a long trip around the tip of South America.
The USS Kitty Hawk will be broken up and recycled in Texas after a long trip around the tip of South America.
Congress has approved $50 million in total to help fix the USS Connecticut, but the repair bill could grow to be significantly larger.
USS Connecticut is now near its homeport in Bremerton nearly three months after hitting a seamount.
USS Connecticut is making its way back to its home in Washington State after slamming into a seamount in the South China Sea.
There are more of these thankfully inert objects in the area and the Navy will now survey the waterway and remove any others it finds.
We still don’t know its origin or its exact age.
Even if it is many decades old it could be a major hazard to ships and it isn’t clear how it made it so deep into the sound in the first place.
After passing over regenerating some Perry class frigates, the Navy is on course to wind up with no viable surface combatants in reserve at all.