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    British, Soviet, French and Dutch Battleships of World War II

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    British, Soviet, French and Dutch Battleships of World War II

    Robert O. Dulin, William H. Garzke, "British, Soviet, French and Dutch Battleships of World War II"
    Jane's Information Group | 1981 | ISBN: 071060078X | 415 pages | PDF | 40,7 MB

    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 at·
    tack .
    • Similarly, the development of aircraft prompted interest in antiaircraft gunnery
    and in heavier deck armor to resist bombs.
    In the years following World War I, the supremacy of the battleship was challenged
    by the advocates of air power. They insisted, accurately but prematurely, that the
    primacy of the capital ship was doomed by air power. The success of U.S. Army
    aviators under the leadership of General William "Billy" Mitchell in sinking a destroyer,
    light cruiser, and three obsolete battleships (most notably the ex-German
    Ostfriesland) in rather sensational (and one-sided) ordnance trials in 1921 and 1923
    inflamed the controversy. Battleships were not defenseless and certainly not without
    any protection, but they did succumb to a new and more dangerous foe. For the next
    two decades, there was a proliferation of periodicals and books that forecast the demise
    of battleships under air attack, either at sea or in port. Inevitably, these developments
    influenced the design of new capital ships…….










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