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Originally Posted by PhantomWolf
Totally off topic, but most of the damage to the Sheffield was due to the Brits cutting construction costs and building its armour from aluminum and not steel. Unlike steel, aluminum burns really, really well.
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Not at all, there was no Armour, these were Frigates and Destroyers, they have never carried armour. As the post says it was the rocket motor that did the damage, it caused widespread fires that a small ship couldn't hope to contain, the Aluminium problem was on Antelope a Type 21 Frigate, it used Aluminium in its superstructure to save topweight. By the time this was burning the ship had been lost.