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Bernard Brett. Modern sea power. 1986
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Bernard Brett. Modern sea power. 1986
The struggle for supremacy at sea is a continuing and fascinating story. This book describes in illuminating detail the development of the heavy battleship with her long-range how her vulnerability was exposed with the advent of the torpedo, and her eventual decline in importance with the introduction of the aircraft carrier. During the Second World War both the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and the Americans in the Pacific proved conclusively that the battleship was no match for attack by bombs and torpedoes delivered from carrier-based naval aircraft and by the end of the war the aircraft carrier had replaced the battleship as the major capital ship. The second half of the twentieth-century brought a shift of power at sea from above to below the surface and the arrival of the surface-to-surface and air-to-surface guided missiles introduced an entirely new concept into naval the nuclear-powered submarine – the most deadly of all weapons – firing its destructive Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident missiles. Lavishly illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs, Modern Sea Power also gives detailed specification of many classes of ship and the weaponry and surveillance systems in operation. The importance of merchant shipping in any combat is also highlights, including the requisitioning of the famous liner, the QEII, during the Falklands Campaign.
The struggle for supremacy at sea is a continuing and fascinating story. This book describes in illuminating detail the development of the heavy battleship with her long-range how her vulnerability was exposed with the advent of the torpedo, and her eventual decline in importance with the introduction of the aircraft carrier. During the Second World War both the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and the Americans in the Pacific proved conclusively that the battleship was no match for attack by bombs and torpedoes delivered from carrier-based naval aircraft and by the end of the war the aircraft carrier had replaced the battleship as the major capital ship. The second half of the twentieth-century brought a shift of power at sea from above to below the surface and the arrival of the surface-to-surface and air-to-surface guided missiles introduced an entirely new concept into naval the nuclear-powered submarine – the most deadly of all weapons – firing its destructive Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident missiles. Lavishly illustrated throughout with black and white and color photographs, Modern Sea Power also gives detailed specification of many classes of ship and the weaponry and surveillance systems in operation. The importance of merchant shipping in any combat is also highlights, including the requisitioning of the famous liner, the QEII, during the Falklands Campaign.
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