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Navy to retire USS Harry S. Truman Aircraft carrier 2 decades early, Shrinking Carrier Fleet To 10

Navy to retire USS Harry S. Truman Aircraft carrier 2 decades early, Shrinking Carrier Fleet To 10

The Pentagon reportedly plans to send one of its Nimitz-class aircraft carriers into early retirement at least two decades early, shrinking the carrier fleet to save billions of dollars. Amidst rising anxiety over whether the US Navy’s thousand-foot-long flagships could evade Chinese missiles in a future war, the Pentagon has decided …

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