USS Forrestal

Was it the Radar? Respectfully Revisiting the 1967 US Navy USS Forrestal Carrier Disaster: Part 2

How can the EMI/EMC community continue to blame this accident on electromagnetic interference (EMI) from the USS Forrestal’s on-board AN-SPS-43 search radar when the official US Navy inquiry comes to different conclusions?

Was it the Radar? Respectfully Revisiting the 1967 US Navy USS Forrestal Carrier Disaster: Part 1

In 1967, one of the U.S. Navy's worst peacetime disasters occurred aboard the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier off Vietnam's coast. A weapon misfire triggered a devastating chain of explosions and fires, resulting in hundreds of casualties and nearly destroying the ship.

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