On April 19, 2005, the USS America (CV-66), a retired U.S. Navy supercarrier, was deliberately sunk in a live-fire test approximately 250 nautical miles off the coast of Virginia. Unlike previous computer simulations, this real-world sinking exercise allowed the Navy to study how an actual carrier hull would respond to sustained missile and explosive attacks over several weeks. The extensive data collected from the structural damage, survivability factors, and progressive flooding significantly
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SINKING OF THE U.S.S AMERICA - THE ONLY UNITED STATES SUPERCARRIER EVER SUNK. It's May 14th, 2005, and a huge aircraft carrier slips beneath the waves of the North Atlantic, all the way down to the ocean floor at a depth of 2,810 fathoms, or 16,860 feet. The photo depicted here shows waves breaking its front as it slowly starts to slip underwater. It is the only photo of U.S. Navy Supercarrier being sunk. The location of the wreck at 33 degrees, 9 minutes, 9 seconds north latitude and 71 degrees
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