b]Название:[/b] British Heavy Cruisers 1939-45
Автор: Angus Konstam, Paul Wright
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey New Vanguard 190
ISBN: 978 1849086868
Год издания: 2012
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 50
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 2,6 MB
The idea of a heavy cruiser emerged in the aftermath of the First World War, and was closely linked to the limits set by the inter-war Washington Treaty on naval armament. The pre-Great War concept of armoured cruisers had been abandoned, but in their stead the Admiralty saw a place for powerful cruisers, able to patrol the sea lanes of the British Empire, and which were well-enough armed that they could destroy enemy commerce cruisers of the kind used by the Germans in the last war.