The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49Routledge, 8 dec 2005 - 240 pagina's An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied anti-submarine countermeasures had forced the Germans to modify their existing U-boats with the schnorkel. Countermeasures along also pushed the development of high-speed U-boats capable of continuously submerged operations. This study shows how these improved submarines became benchmark of the post-war Russian submarine challenge. Royal Navy doctrine was developed by professional anti-submarine officers, and based on the well-tried combination of defensive and offensive anti-submarine measures that had stood the press of time since 1917, notwithstanding considerable technological change. This consistent and holistic view of anti-submarine warfare has not been understood by most of the subsequent historians of these anti-submarine campaigns, and this book provides an essential and new insight into how Cold War, and indeed modern, anti-submarine warfare is conducted. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
1 Echoes from the past 191740 | 8 |
2 Mastering the submersible 193943 | 25 |
3 Elusive victory | 46 |
4 The dawn of modern antisubmarine warfare 194446 | 68 |
5 Shortterm problems longterm solutions 194647 | 93 |
6 New problems old recipes 194748 | 119 |
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The Royal Navy and Anti-submarine Warfare, 1917-49 Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2006 |
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