Chapter 382： The Royal Ark was sunk

"Boom!" The ground broke and the ground shook.

Two and a half tons of bombs have two tons inside! When it exploded, it was powerful.

In the huge explosion, the air wave swallowed the sailor next to him in the first place. He didn't even feel pain, and was torn apart and carbonized at this moment.

The ground cracked and the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the entire Ark Royal aircraft carrier shuddered in this explosion.

Yes, it is trembling, this is simply the power of heaven and earth!

The heat wave of the explosion emerged from the gap just opened and flew to a place more than ten meters high on the deck. With the bomb exploded just now as the center and the surrounding steel tens of meters, at this moment, I felt thousands of High temperature, so the steel was melted and easily broken.

If you look from the outside, you can be surprised to find that when the explosion occurred, the entire Ark Royal trembled violently, and then, from the middle, broke apart.

Just break!

The huge bomb exploded in the middle, tearing the inner deck, tearing the side of the ship's side, and expanding outward from the location of the explosion, and the steel broke one after another!

The middle part was broken, and both sides began to rise.

Although the Royal Ark is an aircraft carrier, in this era, if armor protection is not emphasized, it must be very sad.

Therefore, when the Ark Royal was designed, it was specially strengthened. For example, it adopts a monolithic hull structure. From the keel to the hangar deck and the flight deck are included in the hull, the flight deck is a powerful deck. All the keys are The parts have been strengthened.

Almost like battleships, the lower hangar deck, gasoline tank, ammunition storage, power compartment and other vital parts are covered with 89 mm thick armor, and a 114 mm thick armor belt is laid on the side.

As for the flight deck, although it is wooden, there is armor underneath.

In this era, wooden flight decks are the mainstream. However, the deck material is not all wood. Instead, a wooden deck is covered on a thin steel sheet of a few millimeters, and steel supports are supported under the thin steel sheet.

Seen from above, it is made of wood, but below it is supported by steel. Otherwise, it will definitely not support the weight of the aircraft.

As for why steel plates are not fully used as flight decks, it is mainly due to tonnage restrictions.

In history, changes were not made until the next level of the Royal Ark, the Radiant Carrier.

At that time, Rear Admiral Reginald Henderson, the Third Minister of Maritime Affairs and Naval Auditor in charge of armaments, believed that the bombers of Germany and Italy would carry armor-piercing shells weighing at least 500 pounds, so the target of defense against aircraft carriers’ flight decks It is set to defend against 500-pound armor-piercing projectiles.

It is a pity that the economically struggling Britain cannot afford an aircraft carrier of too large a tonnage. It is even more impossible to manufacture a fully armored aircraft carrier on an aircraft carrier of more than 20,000 tons.

As a result, in order to ensure the stability and defensive power of the aircraft carrier, the offensive power has become a thing to be discarded by the Brilliant Class. There are only 36 aircraft, but the protection is quite strong, and the armor weight of the flight deck has reached 1,500 tons.

The current Ark Royal has a total armor weight of only 2850 tons, and these armors are mainly placed on the side to resist possible battleship attacks. After all, battleship guns rarely hit the top, mainly hits. side.

And now, the Royal Ark cannot withstand a 500-pound bomb, let alone the current 2,400 kg!

The pride of the Royal Navy, the most advanced aircraft carrier, the Royal Ark, was hit by a huge bomb dropped from high above. Even if the bomb did not explode, just hitting it would have caused structural damage to the Royal Ark. Serious damage, not to mention now, the huge explosion, the Royal Ark, instantly became two stages!

The fire was spreading rapidly, and the entire hangar area instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire, with explosions one after another.

Although the Royal Ark was in the refurbishment period of returning to Hong Kong, he carried a large amount of ammunition when he went to sea last time.

Any ammunition, as long as it is on a warship, it will hardly get down. It is too much trouble. Now the Royal Ark carries 72 4572mm torpedoes, 360 500-pound bombs, 300 250-pound bombs, and 576 100-pound bombs. Pound bombs, 800 20-pound bombs and 720,000 rounds of 77mm aviation machine gun bullets.

The fire immediately spread to the ammunition area, and the ammunition was quickly ignited.

Most of the sailors live on the shore. No one wants to go to sleep in the dark cabin during the mooring of the warship. However, on the current Ark Royal, there are still more than two hundred sailors left behind.

These sailors have almost no chance of survival.

The space on the aircraft carrier is limited. The wide deck occupies all the space, leaving only a corner of the bridge. Most of the soldiers’ living quarters are under the hangar.

When the air defense sirens sounded, they quickly got up from their bunks and ran outside. Unfortunately, they hadn't run out long before they heard terrible crashes and explosions. Then, the ship began to capsize!

The Royal Ark, which was exploded into two sections, flooded in a large area in an instant, making it impossible for many officers and soldiers to evacuate. The sea water poured in, and many sailors were flooded.

Not all sailors can swim, and in this case, even if they can swim, they may not be spared. When the sea rolls in, they are directly submerged from above, holding a breath, even if they can swim. A few tens of meters, it may not be able to swim out!

When the explosion happened, Phillips almost witnessed the whole process. He watched the bomb, which penetrated from the deck more than ten meters away from his feet, and the splashing deck wood hit him. Then, in the violent explosion, the terrifying hot air flow directly impacted him!

His body was instantly lifted by this explosive air current, and an exclamation came from behind: "General!"

The captain of the Royal Ark, Colonel Mond, woke up earlier. His room was on the bridge. When he found Phillips was going down for a walk, he was on the bridge to prepare for a sailing plan.

As a result, the air defense alarm and the bombing of the warship caught him off guard. When the air wave lifted Phillips, he could see clearly.

The Royal Ark, it's over! As the warship was shot, he began to lean quickly, and his body slammed heavily on the wall on the side here.

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