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The USS America Took Weeks to Go Down, and Carrier “destroy” Got Harder to Prove

What does it take to actually sink an aircraft carrier, and not just put it out of the fight? The U.S. Navy responded in the ...
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USS America wouldn’t go down, and carrier survival got more complicated

What is it really costing to get a supercarrier on the bottom when there is nobody shooting back? In 2005, the retired USS America (CV-66) was deployed by the U.S Navy as an experiment, not a send-off ...