Warships Today: Over 200 of the World's Deadliest Fighting Ships

Posted By: Oleksandr74

Chris Chant - Warships Today: Over 200 of the World's Deadliest Fighting Ships
Barnes & Noble Books | 2005 | ISBN: 0760767009 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 179.41 MB

The first thirty three pages have two page long articles on each of the following topics on modern naval warfare:
The birth of the supercarrier - From Forrestal to Nimitz
Light carriers and V/STOL - Low cost naval air power
Carriers of the future
Cold War Submarine patrol
Submarine sensors
SSBNs - Death from the deep
Nuclear Hunter Killers - The art of underwater ambush
Surface Action Groups - Naval arbiters
Land attack - from gun to missile
Rise of the Missle - anti-ship missiles
US amphibious assault -Marine corps in action
Amphibious warfare - 21 st Century assault
Cold War Soviet Spy Ships
Aegis - Fleet air defence system
Anti Submarine torpedoes - Weapons in the underwater war
Helicopter anti-submarine Warfare- sensors and systems
Underwater stand off, keeping the submarine at bay
Modern mine warfare - mine technology
Most of the pages consists of profiles of various classes of vessels (aircraft carriers, submarines, frigates, cruisers, destroyers, spy ships, assault ships, mine sweepers, missile boats, patrol craft, and fleet support vessels ), carrier aircraft and helicopters, surface to air missiles and defensive anti aircraft gun systems mounted on ships and anti submarine rockets.
There are many colour and black and white photographs to illustrate each subject. Each vessel entry usually have one photograph accompanying the text profile but some subjects may also have a colour profile artwork as well.