Книга на английском языке the roman empire was not only built by the strength of the legions but also by a navy that was the most powerful maritime force ever to have existed. it was only the existence of the fleet that secured the trade routes and maintained the...
Книга на английском языке this book examines all the us navy heavy cruisers built during and after world war ii. this includes the largest class of heavy cruisers ever built, the 14-ship baltimore class. of these, only seven were commissioned in time to see service during...
Издание на английском языке the launch of hms dreadnought in 1906 changed the face of naval warfare. this revolutionary new battleship was in a league of her own, capable of taking on any two "pre-dreadnought" battleships in a straight fight. a naval arms race followed...
Издание на английском языке the book tells about the development of the royal navy of great britain from the end of the first world war through the interwar years and up to the second world war. she describes how, after the war, britain had the largest fleet in the world,...
Издание на английском языке the book focuses on the role of the dominions of the british empire, such as australia, canada and new zealand, in naval defense and military operations during the first and second world wars. at the beginning of the 20th century, the british...
Книга на английском языке the epic story of the american battleships that turned the us navy into a global power, and were made famous in the cruise of the “great white fleet.” the last predreadnought battleships of the us navy were critical to the technological...
Книга на английском языке while not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the essex- and yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards allied victory both in the pacific and atlantic theaters. rather than relying on size...
Книга на английском языке this is the fully-illustrated story of the royal navy's escort carriers which battled against deadly u-boats during the battle of the atlantic, giving vital air cover to the convoys that kept britain alive in world war ii. in 1941, as the battle of...
Книга на английском языке as the possibility of war loomed in the 1930s, the british admiralty looked to update their fleet of destroyers to compete with the new ships being built by germany and japan, resulting in the commissioning of the powerful tribal-class. these were...
Книга на английском языке the soviet navy that faced the german onslaught in 1941 boasted a mixture of modern warships, often built with foreign technical assistance, and antiquated warships from the tsarist era that were modernised for the conflict. some soviet naval...
Книга на английском языке in 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air raids, and by 1918 the first aircraft carrier to...
Книга на английском языке during world war ii, the united states built 72 light cruisers of various classes. in response to the severe air threat that surface ships faced, new cruisers were designed with increasingly heavy antiaircraft weaponry as well as the traditional...
Книга на английском языке of the 17 battleships that the united states navy (usn) went to war with in december 1941, 15 of these were older ships dating back to 1912. the most recent of these were the ships of the tennessee and colorado classes which constituted five of...
Книга на английском языке an illustrated history of the long cold war careers of the us navy's last gun destroyers, from the modernized world war ii-era [url00-01015352]fletcher[/url00-01015352] -class to the forrest sherman-class. the finest american destroyers of world...
Книга на английском языке it was official – the age of the gunboat had passed. in december 1904, with a few strokes of his pen, the first sea lord sir john ‘jacky’ fisher decreed that the royal navy would scrap most of its large fleet of gunboats. it was a force he...
Издание на английском языке the book discusses the naval arms race between the united states and germany in the early 20th century, focusing on the development and impact of the all-big-gun dreadnought battleship concept. following the spanish-american war, both nations...
Издание на английском языке in the interwar period, the united states navy (usn) built 18 large cruisers. these came to be known as “heavy cruisers” because of their size and later because of their armament. all of these ships were built under limitations resulting...
Издание на английском языке the book tells about the fate of the ship "new orleans", which was built in 1814-1815, but was never launched. this ship, designed for naval battles, remained abandoned on the shores of lake ontario, far from the oceans for which it was created....
Издание на английском языке the book tells about the development of the navy of the austrian empire, starting with the victory of admiral wilhelm von tegetthoff in the battle of lissa in 1866. although this battle is considered the empire's greatest naval victory, it also...
Издание на английском языке the book tells about the history and development of torpedo boats, their technologies, designs and combat use. contents introduction the development of the cmbs, 1915 cmbs in russia, 1919 torpedo boat development the soviet "young...
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