{"id":52072,"date":"2023-06-17T06:07:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=52072"},"modified":"2023-06-19T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T10:05:13","slug":"the-sad-aspect-that-the-aircraft-carrier-uss-kitty-hawk-offers-in-its-scrapping-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/17\/the-sad-aspect-that-the-aircraft-carrier-uss-kitty-hawk-offers-in-its-scrapping-process\/","title":{"rendered":"The sad aspect that the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk offers in its scrapping process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21, 1960, the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63, the first aircraft carrier of its class, consisting of four ships, was launched in New Jersey.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/14\/uss-block-island-the-story-of-the-carrier-that-was-sunk-west-of-the-canary-islands\/\">USS Block Island: the story of the carrier that was sunk west of the Canary Islands<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/04\/the-seven-aircraft-carriers-that-have-been-sunk-after-world-war-ii\/\">The seven aircraft carriers that have been sunk after World War II<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The USS Kitty Hawk entered service on April 29, 1961 and <strong>was in service for 48 years<\/strong>, being withdrawn from service on May 12, 2009. Being conventionally propelled ships, <strong>the four carriers of the class could have been turned into museums<\/strong>, something that will not be possible with the carriers of the Nimitz class, due to the costly maintenance involved in the two nuclear reactors carried by those carriers. <strong>There were attempts by veterans of the USS Kitty Hawk to convert it into a museum<\/strong>, but in the end they did not achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52979231337_0b09c626ce_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The USS Kitty Hawk on a visit to Hong Kong on April 28, 2008 (Photo: U.S. Navy).<\/div>\n<p><strong>In October 2017, the US Navy announced that the aircraft carrier would be scrapped.<\/strong> On January 15, 2022, the USS Kitty Hawk began her final voyage to Brownsville, Texas, along the Mexican border , to be scrapped. She arrived at her destination on May 31 of that year. <strong>The scrapping process has already started.<\/strong> Three weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@michaelfarrell3446\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Farrell<\/a> posted a video showing the current sad state of the ship:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kitty Hawk Flyover 5\/21\/23\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBK09AOdTr8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Lead photo: U.S. navy. The USS Kitty Hawk with its flight deck packed with Super Hornet fighters, in a photo taken on August 6, 2008.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 21, 1960, the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63, the first aircraft carrier of its class, consisting of four ships, was launched in New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,11545],"tags":[19477,10431,319,19475],"class_list":["post-52072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-navy","tag-kitty-hawk-class","tag-united-states","tag-us-navy","tag-uss-kitty-hawk-cv-63"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}