Название: The British Carrier Strike Fleet
Автор: David Hobbs
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321716
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 640
Размер: 99,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
In 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy s history was centred on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this potent strike force its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of uncomprehending politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. After 1945 'experts' prophesied that nuclear weapons would make conventional forces obsolete but British carrier-borne aircraft were almost continuously employed in numerous conflicts as far apart as Korea, Egypt, the Persian Gulf, the South Atlantic, East Africa and the Far East, often giving successive British Governments options when no others were available.