Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Goodnight JFK




From Defense Industry Daily:

The USS John F. Kennedy [CV 67], which hasn't been deployed since 2004, is the last petroleum-powered aircraft carrier in the US fleet. Virginia legislators denied the Pentagon's FY 2006 request to retire the carrier, but as DID reported a year ago in "Is The End Near for the USS JFK?" attitudes changed once they were presented with the estimated $2+ billion cost of restoring her to fighting condition.