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 ...

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.

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, ...

The U.S. Navy is about to retire the USS Kitty Hawk, and Wilmington wants to bring the aircraft carrier home. The Kitty Hawk is the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier in service, commissioned in 1961 and ...

This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, April 19, 2002. It is republished unedited in its original form. ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK — Even though it’s not headed ...