What You Need to Know: In 2005, the U.S. Navy sunk the decommissioned USS America in a classified SINKEX exercise to gather data on the resilience of supercarriers. The 30-day scuttling process ...

The intentional scuttling of the USS America proved that sinking a carrier is easier said than done. On May 14, 2005, the Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier sank 17,000 feet below the floor of the ...

The Navy plans to send the retired carrier USS America to the bottom of the Atlantic ... At the end, explosive scuttling charges placed to flood the ship will be detonated, and the America will ...

Summary and Key Points: The USS America (CV-66), a Cold War-era aircraft carrier, was purposefully sunk by the U.S. Navy on May 14, 2005, after being decommissioned in 1996. -Despite protests from ...