Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Drachinifel"
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@mshotz1 if they're identical and built from the battleships, show me the citadel within them, which would render them incapable of serving as an aircraft carrier.
Nothing was built from a Montana class, as that class was never laid down at all. Recycling part of a design on paper does not mean it was built upon that which was never built. Battleships were planned around their armored citadel, carriers were planned entirely on their own. What you were saying basically makes a modern supertanker a battleship, as both have keels or some other such nonsense. They share common items of design and those get recycled in future designs, but the carrier is no more a battleship than a dingy is.
Now, escort carriers, those were commercial hulls that they slapped a carrier deck onto, largely out of desperation to get well, anything that could launch aircraft out there to fight the war.
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What most civilians can never grasp is, armored anything afire becomes a metal box that's heated - an oven. At times, even to the point where even steel begins to burn.
The hanger deck had to have been filled with rivers of molten and boiling aluminum quite early on!
As for Illustrious, I'm not sure which caused more damage, the attack you're speaking of or the last attack on her, which was a 2200 pound bomb detonating 50 feet away in the water, cracking multiple transverse frames. Most of the bombs that did strike her, well, they only struck her, didn't penetrate. Excellent armor on that deck!
Although, I don't recall that many warships that had the ship's bell shot up as much as hers was, which is telling as to the intensity of the attack.
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@thevictoryoverhimself7298 the carriers ended up being used as helicopter carriers. For the larger warplanes, we invented supercarriers.
For antisubmarine use, well, you do need to have room for countermeasures, weapons and electronics.
Meanwhile, armor rather became moot, as one could get swarmed with missiles that tend to hit their target, unlike most big gun rounds, which largely missed their targets. WWII proved one didn't need big muscle ships with big guns to slug it out, as aircraft wreaked havoc upon both Germany and Japan's fleets. Then came the guided missiles, which did quite a number during the Falklands. A fair bit of damage came from unexpended fuel from the missile burning and flowing belowdecks. The same, from her own missiles, with the Moscow.
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