Black Audacious
Tier IX · Aircraft Carrier · U.K.
Rating C+ (Lower-mid within its tier and class · overall score 38) · Balanced carrier
Balanced carrier. Strike aircraft fly at 184 kn and cross flak zones quickly. Both bomber and torpedo-bomber strikes are weak, so pick targets with weak AA.
Key stats
- HP: 38,114
- Top speed: 31.41 kn
- Surface detectability: 11.04 km
- Main battery: 113 mm 8X2 · reload 7 s · range 7.86 km
This heavy aircraft carrier project, designed at the end of World War II, represented a further development of the Implacable class. Her large dimensions allowed her to overcome the major drawback of her predecessors—the relatively small number of airplanes they could carry. The aircraft carriers initially laid down as the Audacious class were completed much later, in the 1950s, with a significantly modified design.