In Popular Culture
The Bush is featured in the Dale Brown novel Executive Intent, where two F/A-18 pilots perform a stunt on an inbound Chinese carrier aircraft in the South China Sea and in turn causes the Chinese fighter to fall into a flat spin and launch a hypersonic cruise missile at the Bush. The missile is shot down by the Phalanx CIWS system, but the high-explosive warhead causes massive damage on the ship. The real ship is not actually equipped with the Phalanx system.
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