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Navalore covers the United States Navy — the ships, the strategy,
and the missions that define American sea power.
Every video breaks down a real warship, deployment, or naval operation:
aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines, and the technology behind them.
If you want to understand why the U.S. Navy is built the way it is —
this is the channel.
New documentary-style videos weekly.
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17 May 2006. A little over twenty miles off Pensacola.
Hundreds of Navy veterans stood on small boats and watched charges go off
inside the ship they had once served on. She was supposed to take hours to go
down. The Mighty O was gone in 37 minutes.
Forty years earlier, a single flare had started a fire aboard her that killed
44 men. Then came a failed scrap sale, a plan to park her in Tokyo Bay, and a
toxic wooden deck.
▶ New video: Where Is the Real USS Oriskany Now
Did you serve aboard the Mighty O — or were you on one of those boats in 2006?
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Ninety-four seconds.
That's how long Chief Gerald Farrier had on the burning flight deck of USS
Forrestal in 1967. His training told him he had ten minutes.
Forrestal was one of eight — the oil-burning supercarriers that carried the
Cold War. Seven of them ended up on one Texas river. One lies almost three
miles down in the Atlantic. And the last may still be there right now.
▶ New video: Where Are All 8 of America's Oil-Burning Supercarriers Now
Did you or someone in your family serve aboard one of the eight? Tell us
which ship.
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what broke first?
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The Navy held a town hall for carrier families
Their question: when is our ship coming home? The answer, from the acting Secretary himself: "We don't know."
That ship just set a record: 266 days at sea.
Tomorrow — the full story⚓
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Hello friends, I’d love to get to know you! I’m curious to know where most of my viewers are watching from—which countries or cities? If you don't mind, please let me know in the comments!
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America's newest carrier just passed her final exam. 98% complete. 11 years in the making.
That same season, the White House ordered a plan to rip her key technology out of future carriers — and go back to steam.
Tomorrow: the $13B ship that has 18 months to prove the future works. ⚓
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NEW VIDEO IS LIVE 📹
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Everyone "knows" the US Navy has 11 aircraft carriers.
But tied up in San Diego and Sasebo are flat-topped warships — each one BIGGER than France's flagship carrier — launching F-35B stealth fighters off their decks. And the Navy insists they are not carriers at all.
One of them can put 20 stealth fighters over a battlefield. That's more 5th-gen airpower than most countries own — on a ship that's missing from the official count.
Tomorrow's video: the "mistake" ship that quietly became America's second carrier fleet — and why China just copied it. 🇺🇸⚓
Quick question for you, sailors: should the Navy just call these what they are — carriers? 👇
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The part that still gets me: to fire these ships again, you'd have to ask parks around the country to give the gun barrels back — America handed its last spare 120-ton barrel to a display in Virginia in 2011. The ships are perfect. The industry that armed them is gone. Should the Navy ever try to bring one back? 👇⚓
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$23,400,000,000. For ONE warship. That's nearly twice the price of a supercarrier -and it isn't a carrier. It's a battleship. 🇺🇸
The US Navy stopped operating battleships in 1992. Now, 34 years later, it wants to build 15 of them — starting with the nuclear-powered USS Defiant. And the real reason isn't the big guns everyone pictures...
New video. 👇 Brilliant move — or a $23 billion mistake in the age of hypersonics?
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