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The US Navy spent 4 weeks trying to sink one of its own aircraft carriers — and for most of that month, it couldn’t

Summary and Key Points: In the spring of 2005, the United States Navy set out to sink one of its own aircraft carriers — and ...
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The US Navy tried and failed to sink its own aircraft carrier

The U.S. Navy decommissioned the USS America supercarrier in 1996—then deliberately tried to sink her in 2005 off Cape Hatteras as part of a classified live-fire experiment. It took four weeks, and ...