Why Did US Navy Give Away a Supercarrier For FREE?

I got no issue scrapping the carrier honestly. Yea it would be cool to have a museum, but I don't see the problem with scrapping old ships for new equipment. The cost to salvage such a vessel would be monumental, so its understandable why they gave it away.

I worked with the ship in 1975, it's sad to sea her put down this way. What are the powers that be thinking, she is a part of history and can be used in other ways.. Good by fighting lady.😢

I wonder if somebody like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos might be interested in saving some of these ships and operating them as museums? I am pretty sure they would make money doing it so why not? Not that they need to money. Such a waste to scrap them.

Because they are fucking idiots!!!! They could sell it for scrape value like every other country does?!

The navy should have kept some of these carriers the catapults have been modified to handle modern planes

Same fate as USS FORRESTAL CV 59 All Star metals Brownsville Tx.

Scrap it! 0 resale value It would cost million to keep it a float 👍

This narrator spoke everything but the actual reason

and who is gonna pay for it assholes?

The Big O had a dignified burial. At least. Pop served on the Saratoga which was scrapped a few years back.

Dang 😢

I wish they whould have turned them into museums especially the uss John f Kennedy because my mom’s brother served aboard the USS Kennedy he sadly passed before I was born though but it would be cool to go there and see what he had to endure for however long he was deployed on her

I saw the USS Enterprise ( No, not the NCC 1701) at dock in Norfolk, Va . just at the start of DS/DS.

What supercarrier was made into a n artificial reef and sunk.

As sad as it is, I do understand why it wasnt given to a non profit. The Navy understandably had high standards for meusuem ships. You cant just let these things just sit in the water

They have already scrapped 12 other carriers so they can not be recommisioned

The reason why they was sold is quite simple because the ones who sold these carriers hold stock in those salvage companies. They make millions from salvaging carriers witch in turn make there investors profits.

Its been said they haven't paid the 2 cents in full yet ...

I heard from a guy that heard from a guy that it has more to do with the security of future carriers than it does with money. New carriers have the perfect excuse to be scrapped so, problem solved. I was on the Ranger CVA-61. Also scrapped.

They could have sold it to Australia or Japan or Taiwan for cheap

The JFK was the last conventionally powered carrier built for the US Navy.

Any blue water ships that served in the Vietnam War, are subjected to have Agent Orange dust aboard. The wind blows and you can't clean everything out. Veterans who served aboard Vietnam War erre vessels after the war are showing signs of Agent Orange Symptoms today, 50+ years after the war.

The reason why these ships were sold for a penny was because the state of washington wanted to line them up and make a bridge. And Navy was not going support it.

Excellent!

Because the US is too poor to dismantle it.

Because the government doesn't want to spend the money to decontaminate the ship.

Maybe the Navy should be in the business of maintaining museum ships🤔🤔compared to many things the federal government spends money on.. Seems like a no brainer..

PATHETIC, and a SLAP IN THE FACE of not only the military, the servicemen who crewed these great ships but common freaking sense. ANYONE in AMERICA would have gladly given FAR MORE (to say the least) than that ridiculous 'token' payment price. What the hell has gone wrong with the high-levels of the military that they would allow this kind of travesty, not once but TWICE???

I would buy one just to brag to my friends that I own an aircraft carrier

It’s a floating airport. I’d land on it.

Think it would have saved the taxpayer alot of money if the Navy had delivered it to Texas with a crew and then paid for the crew transportation to next assignments.

That's B.S. I don't care what keyboard warriors think. Should have turned it into a museum and kept it for a back up for WW3

blimey it's massive, i would like to think though that god for bid they could be reinstated if needed, so yeah it's nice to know

USS Kitty Hawk, USS John F. Kennedy, and USS Enterprise should be preserved and turned into museum ships. Enterprise is one of the most iconic ships ever built.

The only silver lining here is that steel is 100% recyclable. So all of these great ships that have been scrapped really didn't die, but live on to this day in things like the cars we drive, buildings we work in, and tools we use

Government spends 500B on contracts every year.... The Smithsonian is a government institute that gets 62% funding from the government. I think most people would rather our government waste our taxpayer money preserving history rather than on stupid things like a pen that can write in space or other dumb things to that degree.

The benefits of preservation also mean that in an absolute crisis, they could always be recalled.

I seen the Kitty Hawk up close and personal in Bremerton...

Which politicians family is getting rich from this?

Cost $264 million in 1961

Bro that could've solved SFs homeless problem 😅

That is sad. I love to go and tour warsips and would have been happy to pay money to see her.

So sad

The American century ended on 9/11. PNAC was only a pipe dream.

Why are theses not being refitted and donated to Ukraine or anther nato member ?? .who could do with them ..

So the top of the line Bullchit she is ebing sold to China and Russia

The maintenance would be maddening, were they kept wet dock.

5million …..nevermind😢

Damn!❤i coulda new home🥹🥹🥹

Keeping a warship afloat is an EXPENSIVE proposition. And sometimes the "owners" can't manage. Witness the effort put forth to get the USS Texas into drydock for repairs last year. The USS Sullivans sank at her moorings and had to be repaired and pumped out just to float her for more extensive repairs. The Sullivans is a Fletcher class destroyer; you could almost use her as the hood ornament of a super carrier.

So MONEY 💵 💵

That’s exactly the reason I thought it would be