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"Okay, classmates, I think you have already learned the basic knowledge of the weapon girl, now go to the training ground with me. ”

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Training ground

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"Alright, classmates, let your weapon girl unfold the armor and start the exercise. ”

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With a 9:1 aspect ratio at the waterline, the USS Ranger carries almost as many aircraft as its predecessors, which are twice as large as its predecessors. The flight deck is 234 meters long and 33 meters wide, not a power deck, but is covered with wooden planks on a steel frame, with two front and rear lifts and a zipline landing brake, and the broadside protection is weakened to 2 inches. The Ranger's deck was refitted, with an elongated deck size of 229×24.4 meters and a hangar size of 172.1×21.28×5.5 meters

The Ranger hangar uses an open hangar, which started with the Ranger. This hangar has good ventilation conditions on the side of the gunwal, which can prevent the formation of gasoline fumes in the hangar when the aircraft engine is warmed up. The Ranger was not originally equipped with aircraft catapults, but was equipped with two H-II catapults with a catapult capacity of 3 tons, which could accelerate the aircraft to 113 kilometers per hour, and the interdiction system consisted of six cross-border interlocks.

The Ranger main armor belt is 50 mm thick, the armor compartment is 50 mm thick, and the upper part of the cabin is 25 mm

The USS Ranger was designed with eight 203 mm L/25 guns and eight single-barreled 127 mm anti-aircraft guns and 40 12.7 mm machine guns.

The Ranger can carry about 81-86 aircraft, the model is the F4F fighter, commonly used 54 + 6 reserved, and the SBD dreadnought dive bomber, commonly used 18 + reserve 3.

The F4F fighter adopts a single-flat straight-wing aerodynamic layout, the retractable landing gear is retracted under the leading edge of the wings on both sides of the fuselage in a human-operated manner, the fairing tightly wraps the star-shaped engine, and the fixed tail wheel is non-retractable. The pilot's cockpit is airtight and located in the center of the wing, with an observation window on each side of the lower wing. The fuselage is an all-metal semi-monocoque with a stress skin riveted joint, two main beams in the middle wing, square wing ends, and a NACA 23015 series wing profile.

The F4F Fighter 3 was equipped with a total of four 0.50-inch machine guns on the wings, and the F4F-4 was later increased to a total of six machine guns of the same caliber with the FM-1/2, and could also carry two 45-kilogram bombs.

SBD dreadnought dive bomber

Crew: 2 people

Length: 10.06 meters

Wingspan: 12.65 metres

Height: 3.94 meters

Empty weight: 2964 kg

Maximum take-off weight: 4,318 kg

Engine: Wright R-1820-66 "Whirlwind" 9 engine

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The huge hull appeared on the sea, the plane started slowly, soared into the sky, flew straight above the target, the bomb fell, fell on it accurately, boom, and the water splashed out with the wreckage.

"Very well, students, let's experiment with the aircraft machine gun. ”

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