Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Aircraft Carriers - The Fleet Aircraft Carrier in the Interwar Years (1929-1939)" video.

As a matter of fact, modern-day VOR stations used in civil air navigation still use almost exactly the same system as Ark Royal's homing beacon - the only differences being that the beam rotates once per second, rather than once per minute, and the station also transmits time signals instead of requiring the pilot to sync up an onboard clock before flight.
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@nickdanger3802 Yes, and having lots and lots of fuelled aircraft and bombs on the hangar decks due to having most of their aircraft struck below for switching from anti-land to anti-ship loadouts right when the Dauntlesses finally came knocking was what set off the massive fires and explosions that, when combined with poor damage control, gutted the first three Japanese carriers at Midway (with the sole survivor, Hiryu, then being overwhelmed by the combined strike forces of all three US carriers). If the American dive-bomber attacks had come in at pretty much any other time, the Japanese carriers would've been much more difficult to take out (that's where luck played a crucial part). I don't think anyone here's ever seriously tried to argue that there were aircraft on the Japanese flight decks at Midway when the bombs came down. Also, regarding your earlier comment, Japanese carriers didn't have any meaningful amount of flight-deck armor until Taiho came around (and she was sunk by abysmal damage control more than anything else).
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@wititorac That quote was in reference to the British armored-flight-deck fleet carriers; Hermes was a light carrier with no armor (and, at the time it was sunk, no aircraft, either).
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@overboss9599 The British armored carriers were in no way incapable of being modernized postwar; Victorious was extensively modernized and continued to render good service into the late 1960s, Indomitable, Implacable, and Indefatigable were planned to be modernized, and would've been had it not for the UK being close to bankrupt, and Illustrious and Formidable were scrapped because they were worn out from years of war.
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