{"id":176302,"date":"2020-07-17T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/17\/what-happens-when-a-nakajima-b5n-kate-drops-an-800-kg-armor-piercing-bomb\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T00:06:00","slug":"what-happens-when-a-nakajima-b5n-kate-drops-an-800-kg-armor-piercing-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/17\/what-happens-when-a-nakajima-b5n-kate-drops-an-800-kg-armor-piercing-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When a Nakajima B5N “Kate” Drops an 800 KG Armor Piercing Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This looks like a picture of Pear Harbor on December 7, 1941<\/p>\n

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The deck and superstructure have been severely damaged<\/p>\n

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It appears that the heat from the fire may have damaged the hull<\/i><\/div>\n

My bad, that’s not the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, it is a fire on the Bonhomme Richard, and the ship appears to have been damaged beyond economic repair<\/a>, notwithstanding claims to the US Navy that it is too soon to make that determination:<\/p>\n

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said Friday he is unsure if the Bonhomme Richard should be repaired after it was engulfed in flames and smoke in San Diego over five days this week.<\/p>\n

Gilday, speaking during a press conference on Naval Base San Diego across from the damaged and listing ship, said they\u2019re still assessing damage so it\u2019s unclear if the ship will be repaired.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe damage is extensive,\u201d he said, adding but he is \u201c100 percent confident\u201d the defense industry can put the amphibious assault ship back out to sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question is should we make that investment into a 22-year-old ship,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I think that the ship could be repaired, if it had to face the Kaigun to protect Midway Island in 4 weeks, but under any situation short of war, it would make no economic sense to repair the ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This looks like a picture of Pear Harbor on December 7, 1941 The deck and superstructure have been severely damaged It appears that the heat from the fire may have damaged the hull My bad, that’s not the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, it is a fire on the Bonhomme Richard, and the ship …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[505,379,445,418],"class_list":["post-176302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-disaster","tag-military","tag-naval","tag-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}