The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel - and by extension a small, minor navy - to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets of expensive capital ships, required radical rethinking. It had long been understood that the most effective way of sinking a ship is to make a hole below the waterline, but centuries of experiments had failed to produce an effective method of achieving this.
Название: Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
Автор: Roger Branfill-Cook
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
Год издания: 2014
ISBN: 1848322151
Формат: pdf в rar
Страниц: 623
Язык: english
Размер: 97,8 МБ
