Название: Strike Craft
Издательство: Gallery Books
Год: 1982
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 70
Язык: English
Размер: 38.7 MB
Just over a century ago the safe and secure world of the big warship was threatened by the development of small, fast torpedo boats. In World War I the Royal Navy's Coastal Motor Boats operated off the German coastline in a series of daring skirmishes, hut their greatest moment came during the war against Bolshevik Russia in 1919, when torpedo boats penetrated the Kronstadt defenses to attack the battleships of the Baltic Fleet.