Название: British, Soviet, French and Dutch Battleships of World War II
Год выпуска: 1980
Авторы: Robert O. Dulin, William H. Garzke
Издательство: Jane's Publishing Company, Ltd.
Качество: Отсканированные страницы
Количество страниц: 415
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Размер: 86.31Mb
Описание: Справочник от известного издательства Jane's Publishing, посвященный линейным кораблям Великобритании, Советского Союза, Франции и Голландии периода Второй мировой войны.
Справочник содержит сведения о проектировании, постройке, боевой службе, конструкции кораблей, а также о неосуществленных и незавершенных проекта
Preface
Battleships and battlecruisers are warships of a bygone age, but for the first several decades of the twentieth century they were regarded as the ultimate weapon of sea power by the major navies of the world. With their large guns, heavy protection, and large displacement, they were accorded the compliment of being termed "capital ships." Until World War II, it was axiomatic that capital ships were considered the basic measure of relative naval power. Now they are merely the vanished symbols of a past age of sea power.
During most of the first half of the twentieth century, until air power made them obsolete, the number, characteristics, and availability of capital ships fundamentally influenced foreign policy and naval strategy. From the onset of the Dreadnought era, government officials, naval officers, civilian engineers and technicians, and laymen debated the complex problems of determining how many capital ships were necessary, their desired characteristics, and the best means of deploying and operating battle fleets, which were based on the battleship.
Two epochal developments during World War I significantly influenced the course of capital ship design:
• The development of the submarine as an effective combatant type forced the designers of capital ships to provide reasonable protection against torpedo attack.
• Similarly, the development of aircraft prompted interest in antiaircraft gunnery and in heavier deck armor to resist bombs.
