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Bookmark or Share- USS America (CV-66) - WikipediaUSS America (CVA/CV-66) was one of three Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1960s. Commissioned in 1965, she spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, but did make three Pacific deployments serving in the Vietnam War.
- KITTY HAWK attack aircraft carriers (1961 - 1968) - NAVYPEDIAAn entirely new carrier design for CVA63 was foregone because of the imminence of the introduction of nuclear power, which, it was believed, would limit any new class to only two units. Kitty Hawk and Constellation differed from the Forrestals in having their islands moved aft, so that two instead of one elevator are forward of them, for ...
- USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) - WikipediaUSS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was a United States Navy supercarrier. She was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was the first of the three Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers to be commissioned and the last to be decommissioned.
- Kitty Hawk class aircraft carriers (1960) - Naval EncyclopediaThe Kitty Hawk class was the second supercarrier serie of the USN, but they were not merely an improved copy-paste of the Forrestal. Tailored for jets operations they operated until after the end of the cold war, and operated all generations of USN aircraft in service from Vietnam to the Gulf War.
- Kitty Hawk-Class: The U.S. Navy's 'Forgotten' Aircraft CarrierMeet the Kitty Hawk-Class. The Kitty Hawk carriers were designed as an incremental improvement over the preceding Forrestral-class carriers. The Forrestal-class was comprised of four...
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