The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Wikipedia
Warzone/The Drive: Parts From The Retired USS Enterprise Are Keeping Her Successors Ready For Combat
Anchors, catapult parts, and steel from the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier are already on other flattops or will go into future ones.
It may take more than 15 years for workers to completely scrap the now-decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, but the Navy is already recycling parts and raw materials from the ship. Components from "Big E" are already on certain Nimitz-class carriers and more could find their way onto new Ford-class carriers, including a future flattop that will also carry the name Enterprise.
Defense One's Marcus Weisgerber and Brad Peniston got the details on how the former Enterprise will continue serving the Navy during a visit to Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia on May 1, 2019. The one-of-a-kind ship, the first ever nuclear aircraft carrier anywhere in the world, has been at the shipyard since 2013. The flattop had first entered service in 1961 and the Navy finally decommissioned her officially in 2017.
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WNU Editor: The USS Enterprise lives on, albeit as parts on other aircraft carriers.
2 comments:
Used parts and salvaged materials and these things still cost a fortune each.
I got to see her sitting at the Newport Shipyard last year, looked like no work was going on but had been stripped of some items (on the outside). I imagine its possible use parts from her to keep others going, typical in large Industries; as long as they work.
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