What You Need to Know: The USS America (CVA/CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was sunk in 2005 after weeks of controlled explosions as part of a live-fire test to study how a large ...

Back in 2005, the United States Navy wanted to test how an aircraft carrier might be sunk. The carrier that was chosen for this test was the decommissioned non-nuclear supercarrier, USS America ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

A decommissioned aircraft carrier slated to leave Philadelphia will now stay for another day after plans to move it were ...

"Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, CV 67 was the first Navy ship to be named John F. Kennedy and was the last conventionally ...

The 1,052-foot-long ship, which has been housed at the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility since 2008, is making ...

The retired USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier will embark on its final voyage ... where it'll be cleaned and prepped before being sunk off the Florida coast. Sources say that was the final ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on its final journey to be dismantled earlier this week. The Kennedy was moored at the Navy's Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in ...

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 ...