No, actually, they didn’t. Of the four warships they lost, two were all steel construction. The two that had aluminum decks and superstructures were hit by armor piercing free-fall bombs that went in through the steel hull and exploded - one was a 1000lb bomb that immediately set off the magazines and the other was hit by multiple 500lb/250kg bombs in the rear engineering spaces that immediately ignited the fuel, destroyed the engines and rudder controls and opened huge rents in the hull below the water. In both the aluminum ships’ cases, the damage they took rendered the question of their superstructure materials irrelevant.
The two destroyers that ate Exocet missiles were all-steel.
I stand corrected! Thanks for that.
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