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Offline rangerrebew

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USS America: The Navy Tried for Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Failed
« on: June 24, 2024, 12:35:54 pm »
 USS America: The Navy Tried for Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Failed
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Summary and Key Points: The USS America, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was intentionally sunk in 2005 after serving the U.S. Navy for three decades.
 
-Instead of decommissioning, the Navy used the carrier for a controlled explosion study to understand its resilience.

-The ship, known for its service in the Vietnam War and Middle East crises, demonstrated significant durability.

-The findings contributed to future carrier designs. USS America now rests 17,000 feet below the Atlantic Ocean, symbolizing its enduring legacy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/uss-america-the-navy-tried-for-weeks-to-sink-its-own-aircraft-carrier-and-failed/ar-BB1oN0ai?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=22b984bba655422bb60ef08f1d63ca27&ei=23
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Re: USS America: The Navy Tried for Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Failed
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2024, 12:37:59 pm »
As was clearly shown with the battleship Bismarck, you don't have to sink a monster ship to render it useless. **nononono*
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Re: USS America: The Navy Tried for Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Failed
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2024, 01:00:07 pm »
USS Kitty Hawk was commissioned in 1961, so a mid or late 1950s design. She was extremely difficult to sink, even when utterly undefended, but the anti-carrier chatterers want people to believe designs 5 decades newer and more robust are fragile?
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Re: USS America: The Navy Tried for Weeks to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier and Failed
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2024, 04:50:20 pm »
In a real war, with a real "enemy", that is determined to win, you don't need to "sink" a carrier any more.

Just get a tactical nuke within a mile or so, and detonate it.

How much of that carrier will be left?
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