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The US Navy is keeping its oldest aircraft carriers alive because the newest are trapped in the shipyard

The U.S. Navy is informally calling it the Nimitz Gap. The USS Nimitz, the oldest carrier in the fleet and originally scheduled for decommissioning, is now leading a task force in U.S. Southern ...
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The US Navy is stuck in the aircraft carrier trap

After spending $13 billion on the USS Gerald R. Ford, the U.S. Navy deployed the most advanced aircraft carrier ever built to ...