The decommissioning and disposal of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers have proven to be a complex and costly affair, reflected in the symbolic sale of retired carriers like the USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy for just one cent each.
The Navy’s last conventional super carriers arrived in Brownsville, Texas this week after taking one last towed sail before getting scrapped. The former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) reached South Padre Island, near the Texas-Mexico border, on Tuesday as veterans of one of the Navy’s last conventional carriers looked on, according to a report in The Brownsville […]