Forty years ago on Thursday, a Soviet submarine collided with the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. The collision occurred as the sub was spying on US warships amid Cold War tensions. It was ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS Kitty Hawk, commissioned in 1961 for $264 million ($2.5 billion today), was sold for just one cent for scrapping in 2022. The Kitty Hawk class, an incremental upgrade ...

Aircraft carriers are extraordinary to behold. By their very nature, of course, they're designed to accommodate aircraft, and this demands ample space to take off and land safely too (including ...

T he news that the aircraft carriers USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy were each sold for one cent felt like an insult to many veterans and ship lovers. These were once flagships and icons of ...

Key Points and Summary - USS America, a conventionally powered Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, served from Vietnam through Desert Storm before retiring in 1996. -In 2005, she undertook a final mission: ...

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, ...

PORTAGE, MI — The Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum is now in posession of a 60,000-pound piece of history that for decades helped secure the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), while the carrier was in port.

USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's oldest active warship, is expected to be pierside in Bremerton at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, Navy Station Kistap officials said. The 47-year-old carrier is coming to Puget ...

SYDNEY — On July 7, activists held a day of peaceful protest at the USS Kitty Hawk, which was docked at Woolloomooloo. At an evening vigil in the shadow of the vessel, activists laid out candles in ...