Ark Royal featured an enclosed hangar design where the flight deck was the 'strength deck' and was strongly built with .75in (19mm) thick Ducol steel plating.

with B6N bombers (50kts): 6.0 seconds for 806m (yes, really) with 4 torpedoeswith C6N and J5N (50kts): 5.0 seconds for 671m with 2 torpedoesYou can see how the times gradually climb as you advance in tiers. share. Sometimes in co-op I only get three squadrons off before the match has ended, so not much damage dealt. His aim was to increase the number of aircraft carried by shortening the landing and take-off distances of aircraft using arrestor gear and compressed steam catapults respectively, which would make more deck space available for storage and aircraft preparation. Ark Royal Flag Ark Royal has been a traditional name used for Royal Navy ships since the late 16th century.

The CV player moving up from tier IV will find the planes of the Ark Royal familiar and should ease the transition to tier VI play. Another feature was the length and height of the flight deck.

save hide report. Swordfish drop a LOT of bombs on each pass (36 if IIRC!).

In 1930, the Director of Naval Construction, Sir Arthur Johns, began to update the plans for the carrier by incorporating recently developed technology.

best. The first British aircraft carrier of a new generation.

The detection size is painful on the smaller maps of lower tiers. Those level bombers are decent fire starters too.

It feels like you would drop at the same angle, just leading a tad further ahead, no? No, i can't just buy both of them. I'd swap Sight Stabilization into Concealment Expert.

I don't have Demolition Expert yet on my captain, but I'm contemplating because it's a per bomb bonus, not a per drop bonus. [CNO]

Swordfish drop a LOT of bombs on each pass (36 if IIRC!).

She was involved in the first aerial and U-boat kills of the war, operations off Norway, the search for the German battleship Bismarck, and the Malta Convoys.

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They do less damage, but you get a lot more hits. With a potential naval arms race developing between Britain, Japan and Italy, the British government sought a second treaty, which included limiting the maximum displacement of an aircraft carrier to 22,000 long tons (22,000 t).

The swordfish bombers, once they spotted the Bismarck were able to get 3 torpedoes on target with one jamming the rudder of the battleship, forcing her to sail in a circle and dooming the ship.The great carrier of the Ark Royal would end in November 1941 when she was torpedoed by the submarine U-81. Just a caveat here, most of my experience in Ark Royal comes from CoOp and Ops.

Personally, I find that the +5 knots is a vital buff for hitting ships faster than 35 knots. And getting a fire chance bump for EACH hit sounds like a bonus worth having. Swordfish drop a LOT of bombs on each pass (36 if IIRC!).

The HMS Ark Royal was a unique aircraft carrier built by the Royal Navy and which served during the Second World War.

While your dive bombers are amazing against tier 5, 6 and 7 opponents, you need to focus more and more on your torpedo planes as you face higher tiers. I will note: The accel is great if you drop behind a ship to "chase it", and if you are somehow able to drop at far distances while still successfully striking at range (2km+) Specified modules are incompatible in a single configurationIf you like our site, please consider disabling ads blocker and support wows-numbers.com. DE is an EPIC skill on Ark Royal for the very reasons you suggest. Built under the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, the ship was ordered in 1934, laid down on 16 September 1936 and commissioned in 1938.