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 ...

A composite image shows the decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, left, next to a photo illustration of the future Ford-class supercarrier bearing the same name.Joshua Karsten/US Navy via ...

Summary and Key Points: The 1980s were marked by tense Cold War incidents, including a near-nuclear collision in 1984 between the USS Kitty Hawk and a Soviet Victor-class submarine, Petropavlovsk, ...

Key Points and Summary - The USS America (CV-66), a decorated Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier that served from Vietnam to the Gulf War, met a unique and controversial end. -Instead of becoming a museum, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A composite image shows the decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, left, next to a photo illustration of the future Ford ...

The ex-aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy began its final journey to the scrapyard. The decommissioned vessel was the last conventionally powered flattop built by the US Navy. The Kennedy namesake will ...