This heavy gun armament was provided in case she was surprised by enemy cruisers and forced to give battle, but her large and vulnerable flight deck, hangars, and other features made her more of a target in any surface action than a fighting warship.
Kaga was provided with a heavy gun armament in case she was surprised by enemy cruisers and forced to give battle, but her large and vulnerable flight deck, hangars, and other features made her more of a target in any surface action than a fighting warship.
This heavy gun armament was provided in case she was surprised by enemy cruisers and forced to give battle, but her large and vulnerable flight deck, hangars, and superstructure made her more of a target in any surface action than a fighting warship.
Some formed human shields, others fought back with makeshift weapons, while a few of the most vulnerable hid below deck and prayed for the violence and killing to stop.
This is untrue and leaves the deck vulnerable to damage.
Moreover, the deck is vulnerable to compression with a reduced cross-sectional stiffness because FRP of the deck under compression is governed by a compressive elastic modulus smaller than its tensile modulus.
Königsbergs thin deck armor rendered her quite vulnerable to dive bomber attack.
Zelicoff countered that aerosol tests would have been carried out at night to reduce UV exposure, and that the woman was particularly vulnerable because she spent much more time on deck than other crew members.
Particular emphasis is placed on the early stages of the deck erection process when the bridge is particularly vulnerable to flutter.
Her large flight deck and lack of armor made her a vulnerable target in surface battles.
