What You Need to Know: In 2005, the U.S. Navy sunk the decommissioned USS America in a classified SINKEX exercise to gather data on the resilience of supercarriers. The 30-day scuttling process ...
USS America was laid down in 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corporation. By 1965, she conducted her first catapult launch with a Douglas A-C4 Skyhawk.