Torpedo: The Complete History of the World&039;s Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
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Название: Torpedo: The Complete History of the Worlds Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
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Автор: Roger Branfill-Cook
Год выпуска: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 90,7 МБ
ISBN: 963786520855
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Torpedo: The Complete History of the Worlds Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: The torpedo was the greatest single game-changer in the history of naval warfare.
For the first time it allowed any small, cheap torpedo-firing vessel - and by extension a small, minor navy - to threaten the largest and most powerful warships afloat. The traditional concept of seapower, based on huge fleets of expensive capital ships, required radical rethinking. It had long been understood that the most effective way of sinking a ship is to make a hole below the waterline, but centuries of experiments had failed to produce an effective method of achieving this.