{"id":8267,"date":"2022-07-03T15:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8267"},"modified":"2022-07-03T15:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T15:44:55","slug":"r-i-p-uss-kitty-hawk-the-navys-last-conventionally-powered-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8267","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. USS Kitty Hawk, the Navy\u2019s Last Conventionally-Powered Aircraft Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The current U.S. Navy carrier fleet is entirely nuclear powered, consisting of ten&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/military\/navy-ships\/a35928241\/navy-aircraft-carriers\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nimitz<\/em>-class carriers<\/a>&nbsp;and USS<em>&nbsp;Gerald R. Ford<\/em>, the first of a new class. The Navy prefers nuclear-powered aircraft carriers as they don\u2019t require fuel oil and have essentially unlimited range. A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier can depart immediately to deal with an international crisis without having to top off with fuel. The use of nuclear power also lessens the burden on the Navy\u2019s logistics fleet to keep carriers moving.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/r-p-uss-kitty-hawk-213000283.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/finance\/news\/r-p-uss-kitty-hawk-213000283.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The current U.S. Navy carrier fleet is entirely nuclear powered, consisting of ten Nimitz-class carriers and USS Gerald R. Ford, the first of a new class. The Navy prefers nuclear-powered aircraft carriers as they don\u2019t require fuel oil and have essentially unlimited range. A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier can depart immediately to deal with an international crisis without having to top off with fuel. The use of nuclear power also lessens the burden on the Navy\u2019s logistics fleet to keep carriers moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1004,1673,259,1056,1057,1005,1055],"class_list":["post-8267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aircraft","tag-aircraft-carrier","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-ships","tag-technology","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8268,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8267\/revisions\/8268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}