Format:
1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
ISBN:
9781473853089
Content:
This book does for naval anti-aircraft defence what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery â€"" it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons the
Note:
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: An Evolving Threat; Chapter 2: Making Anti-Aircraft Fire Effective; Chapter 3: Beginnings; Chapter 4: The Inter-War Royal Navy; Chapter 5: The Inter-War US Navy ; Chapter 6: The Inter-War Imperial Japanese Navy; Chapter 7: Other European Navies Between The Wars; Chapter 8: The Royal Navy at War; Chapter 9: The US Navy at War; Chapter 10: Axis Navies at War; Chapter 11: Post-War Developments; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix: Gun Data; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848321779
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848321775
Additional Edition:
Print version Naval anti-aircraft guns and gunnery
Language:
English
Keywords:
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Flugabwehrartillerie
;
Marine
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