Название: Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
Автор: Roger Branfill-Cook
Издательство: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1848322151
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 90,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.