Название: British Light Cruisers 1939-45
Автор: Angus Konstam, Paul Wright
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Osprey New Vanguard 194
ISBN: 978 1849086844
Год издания: 2012
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 50
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 3,5 MB
Cruisers became Britain's essential vessel for protecting battleships, carriers, and convoys versus Japanese, Italian, and Nazi German commerce raiders, submarines, aircraft, and destroyers.
The light cruiser was a natural development of the sailing frigate - a fast multi-purpose warship that could patrol the sea lanes, protect convoys and scout for enemy battle fleets. By the inter-war period the need for this type of ship was even more important, given the increasing need for protection from aircraft, and the need to screen the fleet from submarines or destroyers.