[funkychinaman]

I moved it to a new thread.

I'm a bit surprised that they're scrapping the Forrestal. After the debacle that was scrapping the Coral Sea, I thought the navy would dispose of their carriers in other ways (America was expended in a live-fire exercise.). It'll be interesting to see if it could be done.

Other countries send their carriers overseas to be scrapped (like the Invincible or the Melbourne,) but apparently it's against the law to send capital ships overseas for scrapping. (A few of the last remaining Essex-class carriers were sent overseas for scrapping, but I guess you could argue they were obsolete at the time and that no one would try to copy the design.)