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Two and a half tons of bombs, with two tons of explosives inside! When it explodes, it's powerful.

In the huge explosion, the wave of qi swallowed the sailor next to him at the first time, and he didn't even feel pain, he was torn apart and carbonized at this moment.

The mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, the ground shook, and the entire aircraft carrier Royal Ark let out a huge tremor in this explosion.

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

The heat wave of the explosion came out from the gap that had just been smashed open, and flew to a height of more than ten meters on the deck, with the bomb explosion point just now as the center, and the surrounding dozens of meters of steel, at this moment, felt the high temperature of thousands of degrees, so the steel was melted and easily broken.

If you look at it from the outside, you can be surprised to find that when this explosion occurs, the entire Royal Ark trembles violently, and then, from the middle, breaks apart.

It's a break!

This huge bomb that exploded in the middle tore the inner deck, tore the side side of the ship, and expanded outward from the location of the explosion, and the steel broke one after another!

The middle part is broken, and the two sides begin to rise.

Although the Ark Royal is an aircraft carrier, in this era, it must be very sad if you do not pay attention to armor protection.

Therefore, when the Ark Royal was designed, it was specially strengthened, for example, the integral hull structure was adopted, from the keel to the hangar deck, the flight deck was included in the hull, and the flight deck was a powerful deck, and all key parts were strengthened.

Almost like the battleship, 89 mm thick armor was laid on the lower hangar deck, gasoline tank, ammunition depot, power compartment and other vital parts, and 1 114 mm thick armor belt was laid on the side side.

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

In this era, wooden flight decks were the mainstay, but the deck material was not all wood, but a wooden deck covered with a layer of a few millimeters of thin steel plates, which were supported by steel supports.

From above, it is wood, and below, it is still supported by steel, otherwise, it will definitely not be able to support the weight of the aircraft.

As for why steel plates are not fully used as flight decks, the main thing is the limitation of tonnage.

Historically, it wasn't until the next level of Ark Royal, the Radiant class of aircraft carriers, that changes began.

Rear Admiral Reginald Henderson, the Third Sea Minister and Naval Comptroller in charge of armaments at the time, believed that German and Italian bombers would carry at least 500 pounds of armor-piercing shells, so the target for the flight deck defense of aircraft carriers was set to defend against 500-pound armor-piercing shells.

It is a pity that Britain, which is financially constrained, simply cannot afford an aircraft carrier of too much tonnage, and it is even more impossible to build a full-fledged armored aircraft carrier on an aircraft carrier of more than 20,000 tons.

As a result, in order to ensure the stability and defense of the aircraft carrier, the attack power became something that the Radiant class discarded, and there were only 36 carrier aircraft, but the protection was quite strong, and the weight of the armor on the flight deck reached 1,500 tons.

And now the Ark Royal, the total weight of the armor is only 2850 tons, moreover, these armors, mainly placed on the side side, are used to withstand the blows of possible battleships, after all, the battleship's naval guns rarely hit the top, mainly the sides.

And now, the Ark Royal can't even withstand a 500-pound bomb, let alone the current 2400-kilogram one!

The pride of the British Royal Navy, the most advanced aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, was hit by a huge bomb dropped from high in the sky, even if this bomb did not explode, just impacting, it had already caused serious structural damage to the Ark Royal, not to mention now, a huge explosion, so that the Ark Royal, in an instant, became two sections!

The fire was spreading rapidly, and the entire hangar area turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and explosions came and went.

Although the Ark Royal was in the process of returning to port, he had carried a large amount of ammunition with him the last time he went to sea.

Any ammunition, as long as it is on a warship, almost will not be taken down, it is too much trouble, and now the Ark Royal carries 72 457.2 mm torpedoes, 360 500-pound bombs, 300 250-pound bombs, 576 100-pound bombs, 800 20-pound bombs and 720,000 rounds of 7.7 mm aviation machine gun ammunition.

The fire, which in an instant spread to the ammunition area, was quickly ignited.

Most of the sailors lived on the shore, and no one wanted to continue to sleep in the dark cabins while the warship was at anchor, but there were still more than 200 sailors left on the current Ark Royal.

These sailors have almost no chance of survival.

Space on the aircraft carrier is limited, the wide deck occupies all the space, leaving only a corner of the bridge, and most of the soldiers' living quarters are under the hangar.

When the air raid sirens sounded, they quickly got up from their bunks and ran outside, but unfortunately, not long after they ran out, they heard a terrible crash, an explosion, and then the ship began to capsize!

The Ark Royal, which was blown up in two sections, flooded a large area in an instant, so that many officers and soldiers did not have time to evacuate, and the sea water poured in, drowning many sailors.

Not all sailors can swim, and, in this case, even if they can swim, I am afraid that they will not be spared, when the sea water rolls in, they will directly drown from above, hold their breath, even if they can swim dozens of meters, they may not be able to swim out!

When the explosion occurred, Phillips almost witnessed the whole process, he watched the bomb, from the deck more than ten meters away from his feet, through the down, splashing deck wood, hit him, and then, in the violent explosion, the terrible hot air current, directly hit him!

His body was instantly swept away by the air flow of the explosion, and an exclamation came from behind him: "General! ”

The captain of the Ark Royal, Colonel Mondstadt, woke up early, his room was on the bridge, and when he found Phillips going down for a walk, he was on the bridge preparing his plans to sail.

As a result, the air raid siren, the bombing of the warship, caught him off guard at all, and he could see it clearly when the wave of air swept Phillips away.

Ark Royal, it's over! As the warship was shot, it began to tilt rapidly, and his body slammed into the wall on one side of the place.