Ship:Indomitable

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Indomitable

Aircraft Carrier | U.K. | Tier VIII

Tech Tree Position

General

Purchase priceSpecial

Hit Points51,400

Secondary Armament #1

113 mm/45 QF Mk.I/III on an RP10 Mark II BD mount8 х 2 pcs.

Firing Range4.5 km

Rate of Fire12 shots/min

Reload Time5 sec

HE Shell113 mm HE 5crh

Maximum HE Shell Damage1,700

Initial HE Shell Velocity746 m/s

Chance of Fire on Target Caused by HE Shell8 %

AA Defense

20 mm Oerlikon Mk.I on a Mk.IIA mount16 х 1 pcs.

20 mm Oerlikon Mk.II on a Mk.V mount21 х 2 pcs.

40 mm/56 OQF Mk.1/2 on an RP Mk.I mount4 х 2 pcs.

40 mm/39 Vickers QF Mk.VIII on a Mk.VII mount6 х 4 pcs.

113 mm/45 QF Mk.I/III on an RP10 Mark II BD mount8 х 2 pcs.

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed30.5 knot

Turning Circle Radius970 m

Rudder Shift Time13 sec

Concealment

Surface Detectability Range13.1 km

Air Detectability Range10 km

Battle Levels

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VIII

Special

Indomitable — British special premium Tier VIII aircraft carrier.

The last ship from the Illustrious-class carriers, which represented a revolutionary breakthrough in the development of aircraft carriers thanks to the introduction of an armored flight deck. In contrast to the lead ship, she had an additional hanger and so could carry more aircraft.

Modules

	Hit Points (HP)	Armor (mm)	Armor (mm)	Main Turrets (pcs.)	Secondary Gun Turrets (pcs.)	AA Mounts (pcs.)	Torpedo Tubes (pcs.)	Hangar Capacity (pcs.)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Indomitable	51,400	13	114		8	16/21/4/6/8				0	0

	Speed (knot)	Average Damage per Second (HP/min)	Loadout	Hit Points (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Sea Hornet	188			2,100		0	0

	Maximum Bomb Damage (HP)	Speed (knot)	Hit Points (HP)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Sea Hornet		182	2,590		0	0

	Maximum Speed (knot)		Research price (exp)	Purchase price ()
Propulsion: 111,000 hp	30.5		0	0

Compatible Upgrades

Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4
Slot 5

Player Opinion

Performance

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Indomitable joins the Royal Navy in World of Warships as its first premium Tier VIII aircraft carrier, bringing with her a very unique playstyle. Her most striking difference from Implacable, her tech tree counterpart, is a lack of torpedo bombers, forcing Indomitable captains to double down on her attack aircraft and level bombers. As a result, Indomitable is a very situational aircraft carrier, and must choose her targets carefully.

Indomitable’s attack aircraft have several differences with Implacable’s. While her payloads deal less total damage, Indomitable’s attack aircraft are considerably faster, cruising at a base speed of 188 knots and 228 knots with boost, allowing her to react much more quickly to opportunities and strike destroyers. Furthermore, the enhanced speed allows Indomitable to offset her increased plane regeneration time: 115 seconds without upgrades or captain skills.

Indomitable’s level bombers also have tweaked parameters. Indomitable’s level bombers have only two sets of two planes per attack flight and less bombs per payload, but an abnormally high speed for bombers of her tier: 182 knots cruising and up to 217 knots with boost. Furthermore, Indomitable’s level bombers have a whopping 2590 base HP, higher than even Audacious’ of 2340. This allows Indomitable to excel at hit-and-run strikes, but against all but low AA targets, she struggles to get two complete strikes off.

At 13.5km base detection range, Indomitable is also stealthier than her tech tree equivalent. With the Hidden Menace captain skill and Concealment System Modification 1, she can reach 10km of sea detection range, allowing her to reposition much more easily and stay closer to the battle. Additionally, each of Indomitable’s plane types carry 4 charges of the Patrol Fighters consumable, decreasing the number of times squadron commanders may find themselves out of fighters on a specific plane type.

Pros:

• Best plane speed among tier 8 CVs, even better than Graf Zeppelin's Ta-152s
• Planes have a very high base healthpool, especially the bombers
• Better ship concealment than techtree counterpart Implacable
• Each squadron carries four Patrol Fighter  consumables
• The only carrier in the game that still has the "slingshot drop" mechanic

Cons:

• No torpedo bombers
• Very long plane restoration time
• Even at full capacity, squadrons are very small
• While fast, the planes lack maneuverability
• Rockets and bombs struggle to damage heavily armored targets
• Heavily reliant on damage over time via fires
• The carrier itself is rather slow

Research

As a premium ship, Indomitable doesn't have any upgrades to research.

Optimal Configuration

Upgrades

The recommended upgrades for Indomitable are as follows:

• Slot 1: Air Groups Modification 1
• Slot 2: Aircraft Engines Modification 1
• Slot 3: Attack Aircraft Modification 1
• Slot 4: Bombers Modification 1
• Slot 5: Flight Control Modification 1

Upgrade Slot 5 offers Flight Control Modification 1, which will significantly decrease the long plane regeneration time and increase the number of planes on deck. Because Indomitable has fairly good base concealment, Concealment Modification 1 is not as vital, especially with commander skill Concealment Expert. However, captains seeking to maximize stealth may consider using Concealment Modification 1.

Commander Skills

Recommended Commander Skills
Cost (points)	Attack			Defense		Support
1	Last Gasp Completely restores engine boost for the last attack squadron.	Improved Engine Boost +10% Aircraft engine boost time. ★★	Engine Techie -20% Engine Cooling cooldown time.	Air Supremacy -5% aircraft restoration time. ★★	Direction Center for Fighters +1 fighter to CAP squadrons.	Search and Destroy +10% to action radius of Patrol Fighter and Interceptor squadrons.
2	Torpedo Bomber -10% torpedo arming distance.	Swift Fish +5% to torpedo speed.	Improved Engines +2.5% aircraft squadron speed. ★★	Repair Specialist +1 In-flight Repair consumable +10% its action time.	Secondary Armament Expert +10% flak and continuous damage -10% secondary battery reload time.	Patrol Group Leader +1 fighter to Patrol Fighter or Interceptor squadrons.
3	Sight Stabilization +7.5% aiming speed.	Enhanced Armor-Piercing Ammunition +3% damage from AP bombs and rockets.	Pyrotechnician +1% chance of HE rockets causing a fire. +5% chance of HE bombs causing a fire. ★★	Aircraft Armor -10% continuous AA damage while in an aura. ★★	Survivability Expert +25 aircraft HP per ship tier. ★★	Interceptor Interceptors replace Patrol Fighters:  +10% action radius.  Invulnerable to fighters.  Cannot attack fighters.  Cannot spot ships.
4	Bomber Flight Control +5% speed all bomber types. ★★	Proximity Fuze -10% (absolute) to target's torpedo protection.	Close Quarters Expert Secondary batteries: +20% range -30% dispersion.	Enhanced Aircraft Armor -25% damage from flak. ★★	Hidden Menace -15% ship detectability range. -20% Damage Control Party cooldown. +50% aircraft return time.	Enhanced Reactions -80% time before activated Patrol Fighters or Interceptors attack. +25% action time. +50% cooldown time.
Key: ★★★ - Extremely Useful      ★★ - Frequently Useful      ★ - Occasionally Useful     No stars - Not Useful

Consumables

Like other aircraft carriers, the captain of Indomitable does not control the ship's consumables.

Indomitable equips the following consumables:

• Slot 1: Damage Control Party  - unlimited
• Slot 2: CAP Fighter  - 4 charges of 4 Supermarine Seafires

Indomitable's aircraft can equip the following consumables: Attack Aircraft:

• Slot 1: Engine Cooling  (2 charges by default)
• Slot 2: Patrol Fighter  (4 charges by default)

de Haviland Sea Hornet bombers:

• Slot 1: Engine Cooling  (2 charges by default)
• Slot 2: Patrol Fighter  (4 charges by default)

Camouflage

As a premium ship, Indomitable comes with Default permanent camouflage and a set of permanent combat bonuses.

Signals

Recommended Signal Flags
Combat
Charlie Kilo +5% ship HP; +2.5% squadron HP.	Juliet Yankee Bissotwo -20% to flooding duration.	India Yankee -20% to fire duration.	Hotel Yankee -20% to damage received when ramming the enemy. +50% to damage dealt when ramming the enemy.	Victor Lima +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire. +4% chance of torpedoes causing flooding.	India X-Ray +1% chance for HE bombs and shells with a caliber above 160mm causing a fire. +0.5% chance for bombs and smaller shells causing a fire.
Juliet Whiskey Unaone +15% chance of causing flooding.	Mike Yankee Soxisix +5% to secondary battery maximum firing range. -5% to maximum dispersion of secondary battery shells. -5% to secondary battery loading time.	November Echo Setteseven +5% continuous AA damage at all ranges. +5% damage from flak bursts.	Sierra Mike +5% to the ship's maximum speed.	November Foxtrot -5% reload time on all consumables.	India Delta +20% to the amount of HP recovered when Repair Party  is used.
X-Ray Papa Unaone +10% action time of a Smoke Generator .	Sierra Bravo +10% action time of Hydroacoustic Search  -10% reload time of Defensive AA Fire .

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Historical Info

Indomitable, YEAR

Construction

Builder: Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, England

Laid down: 10 November 1937

Launched: 26 March 1940

Commissioned: 10 October 1941

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Specifications

23,000 tons displacement, standard

230.0m length

29.2m beam

8.8m draft

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Machinery

Parsons geared steam turbines

six boilers three shafts

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Performance

30.5 knots at 111,000 shaft horsepower

11,000 nm at 14 knots

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Armor

Main belt:

Upper belt:

Torpedo bulkhead:

Decks:

Bulkheads:

Barbettes and Turrets:

Conning tower:

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Armament

Secondary

Anti-aircraft

16 × 4.5-inch anti-aircraft (AA) guns

48 × 2-pounder AA guns 10 × 20 mm AA guns

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Aircraft

Total

50 (1942), 55 (1943)

Fighters

Bombers

History

HMS Indomitable (pennant number 92) was a modified Illustrious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. The Illustrious class was developed in the 1937 Naval Programme. Originally planned to be the fourth of the class, she was redesigned to enable her to operate more aircraft, 48 instead of 36. A second hangar was added above the original, raising the flight deck by 14 feet (4.3 m), although the hangar side armour had to be reduced to compensate. The lower hangar was made shorter than the upper hangar due to the need for extra workshops and accommodation to support the added aircraft.

Design

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Historical Gallery

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  An LSO aboard Indomitable in 1942
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  12 August 1942: Indomitable on fire after being bombed. HMS Charybdis is screening the carrier.

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References

1. HMS Indomitable (92) - Wikipedia
2. Illustrious-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia
3. Armada: Indomitable - News - World of Warships
4. Armada: Indomitable - World of Warships Official Channel - YouTube

Ship Change Log

• Available for testing by supertesters in the game starting from Update 0.8.0.

Testing Changes

• Update 0.8.0.3:
  • The composition of the attacking wave of the rocket attack aircraft was changed. Now the flight has two planes instead of three, which will allow you to make three attacks in one flight instead of two.
• Update 0.8.1.1:
  • Increased the accuracy of bombers and rocket attack aircraft. The accuracy of these squadrons remained at the same level, although the number of aircraft in the attacking flight and, accordingly, the number of bombs dropped were previously changed, as a result of which they were less accurate.
• Mar 29, 2019:
  • Charges of the Patrol fighters consumable increased from 3 to 4 for all aircraft types.
  • Starting number of planes on the deck was increased: from 9 to 12 for attack aircraft; from 6 to 8 for bombers.
  • Bombers now use the same bombs as Implacable. (stats not available, many changes happened around this time).
• Update 0.8.2:
  • Fixed position of aircraft on deck.
  • Fixed a bug where the 113 mm guns were not taken into account in the far zone of AA defenses.
• Apr 10, 2019:
  • Attack aircraft now use the same rockets as Audacious.
• Apr 19, 2019:
  • Attack aircraft's aiming ellipse size increased:
    • Inner ellipse size increased by 24%.
    • Outer ellipse size increased by 42%.
  • Amount of rockets landing in the inner ellipse decreased from 75% to 50%.
• May 16, 2019:
  • Maximum rocket damage decreased from 2,350 to 2,100.
• May 27, 2019:
  • Time between attacks increased for attack aircraft from 0 to 1.5 s.
• Dec 10, 2019:
  • The speed of bombers will return to cruising speed more slowly after using engine boost, to make aiming easier.

• Update 0.8.11:
  • During the New Year 2020, became available for purchase in the Premium store.
• Update 0.9.7:
  • The rocket reticule was rotated 90 degrees, and now extends horizontally.
• Update 12.2:
  • Fixed the position of aircraft on the deck.

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