Perhaps outdated was not as good as dated but the fact remains Bismarck was designed as a medium range battleship intended to fight multi surface targets and was ill prepared to deal with what WWII actually brought but again, there was no way to foresee this so was a flaw by unforeseen events and understandable.
HMS Hood was lightly framed. Her frames were spaced too far apart which caused flexing but adding the 5,000 tons of armor in her redesign in 1916 without strengthening the frames has been considered by some as part of the reason for her loss.
I still believe and also believe the dive on Hood shows the torpedo flat to be the likely explosion that sank the ship. Her back was broken and the AA magazine was not sufficient even with the weak frames, IMO but that theory would highlight the weak frames as being beyond ridiculously weak.
When the after main gun magazine went off there was no explosion only a sheet of flames 200 feet high with a whooshing sound, this much we can confirm by both survivor reports and from the Prince of Whales (The ship not Charles:rotfl: )
If you believe it was the AA rocket ammo that sank the Hood than you must believe it was the Prinz Eugen that destroyed her as that hit came from the Prinz.
Wulfmann
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