US Navy sells two aircraft carriers for....just 2 cents.

[Stampede]

The USS John Kennedy and USS kitty Hawk are going to the scrapper in Texas. Both were bought for literally 2 cents.

"The U.S. Navy has finally sold off what remains of the former aircraft carriers Kitty hawk and john F Kenndy for scrap, letting them go for one cent each. The service decommissioned both ships more than a decade ago but had kept them in mothballs as various groups attempted to secure them to turn them into museums, and there were evensome brief discussions about returning Kitty Hawk to active duty. The Navy finally struck them from the rolls for good in 2017 and began prepping them to be broken down."

The Navy's Last Conventionally Powered Aircraft Carriers Have Been Sold For Literal Pennies

The divestment of the former USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy marks the final end of a historic era for the U.S. Navy.

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[rbstern]

We're going to have to rethink carrier battle groups in the future. It's hard to justify a $12 billion machine that can potentially be killed with a $500,000 missile.

Perhaps smaller carriers without catapult systems, carrying a dozen F-35Cs and a few helicopters.

 

[41mag]

Make it our newest Congressional hall….get all these self serving assholes on board, take it out 10+miles & drop anchor

 

[DoghouseBrew]

That's normal with ships that size being scrapped. The gov't can't give them away but are required to sell them. It'll cost the scrappers a lot of money to reduce them down to razor blades and safety pins.

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[spistols]

Make them sea worthy, NOT battleworthy, and get them hauling containers across the Pacific. God knows we need more container ships out there. I bet you can stack a bunch of containers on them decks!!!!

 

[Stampede]

That's normal with ships that size being scrapped. The gov't can't give them away but are required to sell them. It'll cost the scrappers a lot of money to reduce them down to razor blades and safety pins.

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Yes...the article points out the costs for breaking them down are huge.

Kitty Hawk will have to sail from Oregon, around the tip of South America (via Argentina) just to get to Texas. This will take weeks or even month to arrange.

 

[keith089]

Happens all the time, seen it with aircraft. They get the metal and we don’t have to mess with all of the environmental crap

 

[THREEJAYS]

Well couldn’t they be used for gov housing lol

 

[41mag]

I was thinking of making a Homeless rack out of them….plop them out in San Fran bay - all the worthless and addicted sidewalk crappers can go climb aboard ….then we can just toss some food out there every so often

 

[fattboyzz]

Shoulda sold em to the Dingo gubmint