In March 1984, the Soviet Victor I-class nuclear-powered attack submarine K-314 collided with the US aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Sea of Japan during a tense period of Cold War “cat and ...

Summary and Key Points: The 1980s were marked by tense Cold War incidents, including a near-nuclear collision in 1984 between the USS Kitty Hawk and a Soviet Victor-class submarine, Petropavlovsk, ...

A Near-Nuclear Incident. One such incident occurred in 1984. It involved the USS Kitty Hawk, one of America’s supercarriers, and a Soviet Victor-class attack submarine known as Petropavlovsk.The ...

June 6-7, 1963: President John F. Kennedy makes overnight visit to Kitty Hawk, making the ship the “floating White House” for one night. 1963-1975: Kitty Hawk makes seven combat deployments to ...

From his home in Indiana, James Fulks has watched the journey of the USS Kitty Hawk as it spanned the hemisphere on its way to the scrapyard. The Navy veteran, a retired air traffic controller on ...

BREMERTON — The USS Kitty Hawk, the nation's last oil-fired aircraft carrier, departed Bremerton on Saturday for a 16,000-mile journey around South America for its ultimate fate: scrapping at a ...

Jet aircraft line the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk as it plys the waters of the Gulf, Friday March 7, 2003. ... Just after 10 p.m. on March 21, 1984, ...

Late at night on March 21, 1984, sailors aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, a US Navy aircraft carrier, felt a sudden jolt while sailing in the Sea of Japan.