ACT490: Lao Gu and Shi Tai

Under Thor's dispatch, the power furnace of Star Castle temporarily mobilized more than ninety percent of the output power to the real yàn room, and after a while, she would inject this energy into Shavier's divine core, which was like an electric shock from a pacemaker for the divine core, which could wake Shavier from a state of suspended animation.

But if you want the other party to recover completely, this energy alone is not enough!

With a feeling of anxiety, Zhao Jian's state at this time was very similar to those recruits who were preparing to go to the battlefield desperately. And the main reason why he was so upset was because of a report that Thor showed him.

The report was the energy level gap between Kii and Shavier, and Zhao Jian roughly converted the number of times according to the ratio between the two and his own practical experience, and then Zhao Jian felt that his whole person was going to be bad, and he unconsciously remembered the story of "iron pestle grinding into a needle" in his mind.

After Thor's careful preparation, the steps of reawakening were ready, and Xia Weier's giant divine core was sent into the energy compression chamber by a specially transferred trailer, and the huge energy had also been gathered into the compressor. The first step of Shavier's rescue plan has officially begun!

Wearing a cool pair of little sunglasses, Thor stood on the main console of the compressor. As the high-energy compressor continues to operate, a strong reaction begins to form. When the compression rate of this energy reaches a critical value, Xiao Bu Jiao exclaimed, "It's now", and then raised his foot and stepped on the output button.

With a loud bang, the compressor injected powerful energy into Shavier's divine core in an instant, and the violent vibration lasted for a long time before gradually subsided. Thor checked the situation in the compression room, nodded with satisfaction, and then pushed a picture in front of Zhao Jian.

"Admiral, the awakening has been successful!"

"Well done, take it on...... I'll leave it to me! ”

…… Stand-in part......

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A new and more accurate explanation has been provided for the explosion of the ammunition compartment of the sinking of the Arizona. The new clue comes from Langer. On April 10, 1996, a diving team led by Adams first discovered and identified a long-unknown inward hole in the stern of the "Arizona". After re-examining the air service records/ammunition and equipment information of the Japanese army and the memoirs of the Japanese pilots who participated in the war, the new investigation made serious progress.

The Japanese air service records show that the dive bombers of the first attack wave did not make contact with the American battleships and the torpedo planes did not mine the berths of the "Arizona" an hour after the start of the attack. Prior to the explosion, only two groups of five high-altitude bombers each attacked Arizona, dropping a total of 800 kg (Type 80) armor-piercing shells. With regard to the explosion of the ammunition compartment of the USS Arizona, the US Navy and Shipping Administration has put forward two hypothetical explanations. Although these two statements are not necessarily true. But they are all part of the historical record. There is a film footage from the scene that shows a fire burning in front of the No. 1 main turret half a second before the ammunition bay exploded. One hypothesis is that a bomb hit the jet fuel compartment in the bow. The dubious nature of this claim lies in the fact that the hull of the fuel tank in the wreckage did not have an outward breach or outward expansion and deformation to cite such an explosion process. In addition, the distance between the fuel tank and the ammunition compartment is 28 m (92 ft), and about half of the distance between that is 13.4 m (44 ft) at the rear of the tank is a 330 mm (13 in) thick transverse steel bulkhead, which provides the necessary protection for critical parts of the ship in the event of an explosion or impact in the bow. Such bow transverse armor should prevent the bow explosion from reaching the ammunition compartment.

Another earlier explanation was that the bomb exploded on the armored deck of the "Arizona", and a small number of red-hot shrapnel squeezed through the open hatch of Guò into the place where the explosives were placed under the deck, and the extremely flammable black powder was immediately detonated. The explosive product, in turn, ignited the surrounding ammunition bay. But there are three points that make this assumption even less accurate. First of all, the powder bag at the bottom of the shell, which was originally ignited by black powder as a fuse, has been renovated, and the newly replenished powder bag has its own gunpowder in its pouch, so there is no need to save a fuse. Secondly. This explanation assumes that the ship's sailors failed to reach their positions after ten minutes of alarm, so the hatches leading to the ammunition bays failed to enter the "Z" state (all hatches and hatches were closed), when in fact the sailors in the turret had put their positions into the "Z" state before the explosion occurred. In addition, this explanation also miscalculated the power of the Japanese aerial bombs. It was believed that they could not penetrate the armored deck of the "Arizona".

Although the earliest reports of the loss of the "Arizona" listed eight bomb hit points, the Japanese pilots' estimates were only four, and it should be said that the more conservative figures of the Japanese army were more realistic. According to the new survey. The Japanese announced figure of the four hit points also needs to be subtracted by two, because they are only miss points at very close range.

At that time, Japanese bombers bombed in a V-shaped formation, and based on the existing bomb drop point records, the researchers drew a simple computer reconstruction map to help determine the impact point of the Type 80 bomb. At that time, the US warship "Zhenjie" was berthed outside the "Arizona," and the location of the impact point on the "Arizona" and the spot of the deflection point in the water between the two ships was clearly understood at a glance in light of the relevant documents on the "Zhenjie" bullet situation.

The two bomb points between the two ships are very intriguing, and oddly enough there have been several reports of torpedoes exploding there. The explosion unleashed a huge column of water, which has been documented in many sources, the most important of which was reported by the captain of the "Chaste" Cen. Young, who noted that the explosion corresponded approximately to the ribs of the ship "Arizona" No. 35 and believed that it was the result of a torpedo attack. He and his men witnessed the huge waves splashing at the same time as another bomb hit the bow of the "Arizona", followed by a massive explosion in the ammunition compartment, and it should be said that their report from the scene was correct. However, Japanese aerial photographs and airflight records denied the possibility that one of the two ships had been torpedoed, and the explosion in the water would only be a Type 80 bomb dropped by a high-altitude bomber.

Other reports from the US Navy also denied the torpedo attack. In 1942, the Navy carried out underwater excavations of the entire bow of the USS Arizona, which was buried under the silt of the seabed. Divers used high-pressure water cannons to clear the mud from the bow to 3 meters (10 feet) below the fold of the ship, and found no corresponding torpedo attack point. In addition, the hull of the "Chaste" near the explosives was not damaged, and similar damage would have been inevitable if a torpedo had exploded in close proximity.

Another piece of evidence of the bomb attack came from a black-and-white video of the fate of the USS Arizona in its final seconds, which also showed a huge jet of water rushing outboard near Pier F-7 and on the side of Ford Island. If it is introduced into the computer reproduction diagram as the landing point of the bomb explosion, and combined with the offensive track of the Japanese aircraft formation, the simulation concludes that the stern part of the "Zhenjie" should correspondingly have another impact point. The astonishing result was that the loss report of the "Chaste" recorded a bullet point in the stern, and the bomb penetrated the hull and pierced through the ribs of the 110th of the ship. In this way, combined with the four known impact points, the offensive formation of the Japanese V-shaped five-plane formation was completely determined.

Computer-simulated bomber dropping sites negate the hypothesis that some wartime hull amidships were hit, especially the one that got into the chimney of the Arizona. Footage taken at the scene also clearly shows that the ammunition compartment exploded first, followed by smoke from the chimney. The many holes and defects in the amidships of the hull can be attributed to the scattering of a large number of 127 mm (5 in) shells that were detonated after the explosion of the 356 mm ammunition bay. Before the collapsed bridge, the continuous explosions tore huge gaps in the hull, and the deck behind the bridge was damaged more than 20 meters.

Also to be considered here is the ability of the Japanese Type 80 aerial bombs to penetrate the 127-mm deck with the 25-mm steel plates of the ammunition compartment? The relevant documents of the Japanese army emphasize that when the Type 80 bomb is dropped at an altitude of 2,500 meters, it is enough to penetrate the 150 mm MNC armor steel plate. When the Japanese launched an air attack on the Arizona, the bomb was dropped at an altitude of another 700 meters, so that it would have the ability to penetrate about 170 mm thick steel plates. As an armor-piercing projectile, the Type 80 warhead has an additional 23 kg explosive charge, which can tear a gap in the deck about 600 mm long and 500 mm wide before burrowing into the hull and exploding.

Based on the above analysis, speculation and other information, the researchers have completely sketched out the final fate of the "Arizona". At 8:05 a.m., a formation of high-altitude bombers of the aircraft carrier "Kaga", led by Captain Maki, attacked the "Arizona" and "Chaste" ships, and one bomb each hit the "Arizona" No. 4 turret (at the rib No. 119) and the starboard bow of the "Chaste" at the rib No. 44. The bomb that hit the front (ship direction) of the turret No. 4 of the "Arizona" slipped from the sloping tower wall, penetrated through the rear deck and penetrated into the commander's compartment on the lower level and exploded there, but the damage to the hull of the ship was limited; The bomb that hit the cabin of the ship "Chaste" penetrated through the three decks and entered the reserve pipe room and exploded, which caused a fire but did not flood the hull. Three more bombs failed to hit the target.

I'm going crazy!! I'm going crazy! I'm going crazy! (To be continued......)

PS: By 12 noon tomorrow at the latest! Excuse me!