[Global Network Military Channel] According to the US "Kitsap Sun" (kitsap sun) on November 23, the hull of the conventionally powered aircraft carrier "Kitty Hawk" retired by the US Navy will be in Phuket, Washington in the spring of 2021. Cleanup operations were carried out on the dry dock of the Turf Bay Naval Shipyard, then towed away from Sinclair Bay and eventually dismantled. According to the current legal settlement with the Suquamish Indian Tribe, the Washington State Attorney General, and environmental organizations, the lawyers of the Suquamish Tribe confirmed that the Navy has agreed in the Federal Court to no longer be in Sinclair Bay for at least the next 10 years. Carry out any shipbreaking operations for aircraft carriers. Therefore, the U.S. Navy must tow the old aircraft carrier into the dry dock for cleaning. According to the report, the U.S. Navy cleaned up the old hull of the decommissioned "Kitty Hawk" to ensure that any marine life from all over the world that grew on the bottom of the hull would not be brought into the local ecosystem and become an invasive species.
The former "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier docked at Bremerton Naval Base and other retired warships
reported that the retired "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier will be the first ship to use the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in the United States in ten years. It is expected that the hull clean-up work will take two and a half months for a conventionally powered ship in the only dry dock of an aircraft carrier on the Pacific coast. In addition to the "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier, the retired warships berthed at Bremerton Naval Base together with the retired "Perry"-class guided missile frigate "Rodney Davis" (FFG-60 Rodney M.Davis) And "Ingram" (FFG-61 Ingraham), "Supply" class supply ships "T-AOE7 Rainier" and "T-AOE9 Bridge", and "Austin" Class-class amphibious dock transport ship "Dubuque" (LPD-8 Dubuque).
It is reported that from 1998 to its retirement in 2009, the "Kitty Hawk" has always been the oldest active-duty ship of the U.S. Navy, based in Yokosuka, Japan. Around 100,000 crew members or aviation personnel have served on the "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier. "Kitty Hawk" is also the latest conventionally powered aircraft carrier of the US Navy to retire. During the 48 years of service of the Kitty Hawk, a total of 407,507 interception operations of carrier-based aircraft and 448,235 ejection operations were performed.
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