"Boom!" The mountains collapsed and the earth shook.

Two and a half tons of bombs have two tons of explosives inside! When it explodes, its power is amazing.

In the huge explosion, the air waves swallowed the sailors next to him at the first moment. He couldn't even feel the pain, and was torn apart and carbonized at this moment.

The mountains collapsed and the earth shattered, and the entire Ark Royal aircraft carrier trembled greatly in the explosion.

Not bad, it's just trembling, this is simply the power of heaven and earth!

The explosion of heat waves emerged from the gap that had just been smashed and flew to a place more than ten meters high on the deck. With the bomb explosion point just now as the center, the steel that was dozens of meters around it felt at this moment, the high temperature of thousands of degrees, 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 of Royal trembled violently, and then broke from the middle.

It's just breaking!

The huge bomb that exploded in the middle torn the inside deck and the side of the ship, expanding outward from the explosion position, and the steel broke one after another!

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

Although the Ark Royal is an aircraft carrier, it would be very sad in this era if armor protection is not paid attention to.

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

Almost like battleships, the lower hangar deck, gasoline tank, ammunition tank, power tank and other key areas are laid with 89 mm thick armor, and a 114 mm thick armor belt is laid with the side.

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

In this era, wooden flight decks were the mainstream. However, the deck material was not all wood, but was covered with a layer of wooden deck on a thin steel plate of several millimeters, with steel brackets supported under the thin steel plate.

From the top, it is made of wood, but 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 used comprehensively as flight decks, the main reason is to limit the tonnage.

In history, changes began to be made until the next level of the Royal Ark, that is, the glorious aircraft carrier.

Rear Admiral Reginald Henderson, the Third Minister of Marine and Naval Auditor in charge of the military, believed that bombers from Germany and Italy would carry at least 500 pounds of armor-piercing bombs, so the indicators for aircraft carrier flight deck defense were set to defend against 500 pounds of armor-piercing bombs.

Unfortunately, the UK, which is economically tight, cannot afford an aircraft carrier with too large tonnage. It is even more impossible to build a comprehensive 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 a thing abandoned by the Glory class. There were only 36 carriers, but the protection was quite strong. The armor weight of the flight deck reached 1,500 tons.

The current Ark Royal has a total armor weight of only 2,850 tons. Moreover, these armors are mainly placed on the side to resist possible strikes from battleships. After all, the naval guns of battleships rarely hit the top, mainly hit the side.

And now, the Ark Royal cannot even resist a 500-pound bomb, let alone the 2400-kilograms now!

The pride of the British Royal Navy, the most advanced aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, was hit by a huge bomb thrown from the sky. Even if the bomb did not explode, just impact, it would have caused serious structural damage to the Ark Royal, not to mention now, the huge explosion made the Ark Royal become two pieces in an instant!

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

Although the Royal Ark was in the renovation period when he returned to the port, he carried a large amount of ammunition when he went to sea last time.

Any ammunition will hardly be taken down as long as it is on a warship. Now the Ark of Royal carries 72 457.2mm torpedoes, 360 500-pound bombs, 300 250-pound bombs, 576 100-pound bombs, 800 20-pound bombs and 720-pound bombs and 720-pound bombs, 7.7-mm aviation machine gun bullets.

The fire spread to the ammunition area in an instant, and these ammunitions were quickly ignited.

Most of the sailors lived on the shore. During the warships' mooring, no one was willing to continue to sleep in the dark cabin. However, there were still more than 200 sailors left on the current Ark of Royal.

These sailors had almost no chance of survival.

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

When the air defense alarm sounded, they quickly got up from their bunk and ran outside. Unfortunately, before they could run out, they heard the terrible sound of impact and explosion, and then the ship began to capsize!

The Royal Ark, which was blown into two sections, flooded a large area of ​​water in an instant, causing many officers and soldiers to evacuate at all. The sea water poured in and flooded many of them.

Not all sailors can swim, and in this case, even if they can swim, they may not be spared. When the sea water rolls in, it will be flooded directly from above. Holding your breath, even if you can swim for dozens of meters, you may not be able to swim out!

When the explosion occurred, Phillips witnessed almost the whole process. He watched the bomb penetrate through the deck more than ten meters away from his feet. The splashing wood of the deck hit him. Then, in the violent explosion, the terrifying hot air flow directly hit him!

His body was instantly blown away by the explosion of airflow, and a scream came from behind him: "General!"

The captain of the Royal Ark, Colonel Mond, woke up early. His room was on the bridge. When he found that Phillips was going down for a walk, he was preparing for his plan to sail on the bridge.

As a result, the air defense alarm and the warship was bombed, caught him off guard. When the wave of air flew away Phillips, he could see clearly.
Chapter completed!