die down because this is a fairly energetic deflagration and leave you with the more general fires that have left on the ship and as that happens obviously a good chunk of the ship's bow ceases to exist the explosion is somewhat directed by the mostly intact armor deck above it and the weight of the turrets and the barbettes and obviously the fact there's quite a lot of armor there as well which is why the fire ball tends to jet out of the bow of arizona as well as up and around and because of the cessation of existence of a good chunk of the arizona's bow the heavy stuff that's above it the conning tower the superstructure etc collapses down into the void along with the turrets and barbettes and this drags down the fore mast which results in the rather famous pictures that are seen in the immediate aftermath of the sinking of the arizona so that sums up what is the most likely sequence of events for the destruction of uss arizona and how the u.s navy arrived at it as for the big question of whether or not this would have occurred had that black powder magazine not been there i had arizona moved over to the newer types of charges well it's not entirely possible to prove without full-scale experiment on the one hand you wouldn't have the sheer concentration of black powder that you had on arizona on the other hand if the bomb is fetching up in a conventional smokeless powder magazine and each of the charges there has its own integrated black powder primer then it's anyone's guess as to whether you'll get a slow deflagration of some of the charges or whether the force of the bomb would actually set off the primer patches within the smokeless powder charges which would then set off smokeless powdered charges as if they were in a gun barrel which would then set off the magazine anyway you'd get a slightly different explosion a more continuous one rather than a two-stage one that you've got with arizona but whether or not that would destroy the ship whether or not it would occur at all fortunately no one on a us fast battleship has ever been in a position to find out that's it for this video thanks for watching if you have a comment or suggestion for a ship to review let us know in the comments below don't forget to comment on the pinned post for dry dock questions
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