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Russia's 'Obsolete' Kirov-Class Battlecruisers Needs to Be Scrapped
What You Need to Know: The Kirov-class battlecruiser, a Soviet-era nuclear-powered warship, was once designed to rival U.S. Navy carriers and assert Soviet naval dominance. With advanced radar ...
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USS Constellation carrier towed to the scrapyard along the coast of South America
The trip is expected will take about five months to complete and is among the largest towing efforts ever undertaken with an American warship ... ships for scrap to save on the cost of maintaining ...
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An Old Russian Aircraft Carrier Is On Fire (No, Not Admiral Kuznetsov)
The damage from that fire was so significant that the decision was made to scrap the warship. It was also more than five ...
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Falklands’ war carrier HMS Invincible towed to a Turkish scrap-yard
Leyal has been involved in the scrapping of several Royal Navy ships - the destroyers Cardiff, Newcastle and Glasgow and auxiliary ship RFA Oakleaf. HMS Invincible is expected to be towed from ...
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German warship scrap sites in Orkney's Scapa Flow examined
Bobby Forbes Collection A historic image of a warship's spotting top The latest ... funnels and spotting tops were identified at the scrap sites. As this wreckage is relatively broken up and ...
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HMS Albion and Bulwark 'won't be scrapped' but MP says questions remain
Two Devonport-based Royal Navy ships will not be scrapped ahead of schedule, a government minister has said, but concerns remain over whether they will be kept in operation. Foreign Office ...
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For only the second time in its history, the US Navy is beginning the slow, tricky process of taking apart a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
Yet six years after decommissioning the Enterprise, the Navy can't even decide who will scrap it. Navy shipyards are so overworked that they can't provide required maintenance for active warships ...