Название: Soviet Cruise Missile Submarines of the Cold WarNew (Osprey New Vanguard 260)
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2018
Формат: True PDF
Cтраниц: 49
Размер: 11 Mb
Язык: English
The Soviet Union's cruise missile submarines from the modified Whiskey, to the Oscar II classes were among the most formidable vessels of the Cold War. They were initially designed to carry land attack nuclear-tipped cruise missiles designed to strike targets on the eastern coast of the United States. By the late 1960s, however, submarine-launched ballistic missiles made the nuclear land-attack mission unnecessary, so existing classes were converted to the ‘carrier killer' role, armed with anti-ship cruise missiles designed to destroy US super-carriers and other important naval targets.