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Download or read book Jane's Fighting Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Saunders
Publisher : Ihs Global Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780710629203
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Jane's Fighting Ships 2010-2011 written by Stephen Saunders and published by Ihs Global Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane's Fighting Ships is your essential reference to the world's navies. Country by country, you will find authoritative commentaries for each ship, complete with comprehensive details of: displacement and dimensions, main machinery, speed and range, weapons systems, construction and modernisation programmes, latest operational status and strength of fleet including sales to other navies.
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Total Pages : 1646 pages
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Download or read book Jane's Defence Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-07 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Jane's Fighting Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Les Brown
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399022881
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels written by Les Brown and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-propelled or locomotive torpedo was probably the greatest game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time the largest warship could be sunk by a weapon carried by the smallest, and most navies were quick to see the potential. Although the 19th-century Royal Navy had a reputation for technological conservatism, it was an âearly adopterâ of the torpedo and was instrumental in the development of the small fast craft that became the delivery system of choice, the steam torpedo boat. Britainâs most important contribution to torpedo warfare, however, was the invention of its antidote, the torpedo boat destroyer, or âdestroyerâ as it came to be called. This often-told story has overshadowed the earlier but no less significant history of the torpedo boat itself in the Royal Navy, an injustice set to right by this new book. Torpedoes were derived from earlier underwater explosive devices â mines, spar and towed torpedoes, and the like â so the first chapter briefly reviews their history before moving on to Robert Whiteheadâs revolutionary invention that made the self-propelled torpedo a practical weapon. The Admiralty was so impressed it purchased the rights to Whiteheadâs device, and thereafter the Royal Navy made much of the early running in torpedo boat design. In this they were greatly assisted by existing boatbuilders like Thornycroft and Yarrow who already specialized in small fast craft. The core of this book is a detailed developmental history of British torpedo craft, from the early experiments like Vesuvius and Polyphemus, through the 1st Class TBs to the so-called Coastal Destroyers of the early 20th century. There are also separate chapters on 2nd Class boats, on Torpedo Gunboats and on the âTorpedo Depot Shipsâ Hecla and Vulcan. The book concludes with a number of appendices devoted to background issues like quick-firing guns and reports on performance of the boats in various circumstances. As it fills a surprising gap in the technical history of British warships, this book will be welcomed by naval enthusiasts, modelmakers and historians.
Author : Richard W. Fieldhouse
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780198291350
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Superpowers at Sea written by Richard W. Fieldhouse and published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arms race at sea is a dangerous nuclear race which is causing growing international concern and must be brought under control. What are the hard facts about the situation? This book documents the realities of the competition - especially the nuclearization of naval forces - and dispels some of the myths surrounding the naval arms race. This incisive analysis of naval forces of the East and West concludes that, contrary to common perceptions, the US and its allies have a considerable military advantage over the Soviet Navy, a trend which is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. The authors describe in detail the widespread nuclearization of naval forces of all five nuclear navies, analyse the implications for security and arms control, and conclude with suggestions for possible arms control measures.
Author : Clive Archer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000280772
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Union and Northern Waters written by Clive Archer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1988, analyses the interests and activities of the Soviet Union in the northern Atlantic. It gives particular attention to the growth in exploration and exploitation of resources and to the problems presented by jurisdictional disputes. The responses of NATO, the United States and the Nordic countries to the expanded Soviet military presence are examined in detail.
Author : Clive Archer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136087729
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Soviet Union & Northern Water written by Clive Archer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1988. In 1986 Croom Helm published, for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Northern Waters: security and resource issues, which included a number of contributions from the Northern Waters Study Group of the Scottish Branch of the Royal Institute. This Study Group brought together academics, businessmen, civil servants and serving officers interested in Northern Waters and helped arrange a number of seminars and international conferences. Its members also had contacts with those in Scandinavia and North America who had a professional involvement in Northern Waters. Since the establishment of the Study Group in 1979, interest in Northern Waters has flourished in Britain, the United States, Canada, West Germany and the Nordic countries. In Autumn 1985 the Centre for Defence Studies, University of Aberdeen, held an International Colloquium on what have probably been the main inspirations for the attention devoted to Northern Waters — increased Soviet activity therein and the response of the Western powers. This book reflects some of the issues dealt with at that colloquium and, like the 1986 book, covers jurisdictional and resource questions as well as those concerned with international security.
Author : Richard F. Staar
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 081798593X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)
Download or read book USSR Foreign Policies After Détente written by Richard F. Staar and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based largely on primary sources in the Russian language, this succinct volume cover the following aspects of Soviet foreign policy: world outlook, personalities and structures of the decisionmaking process, implementation of objectives, and a discussion of practices toward geographic regions as well as specific countries.
Author : Andrea Matles Savada
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780788146190
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (461 download)
Download or read book South Korea written by Andrea Matles Savada and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and analyzes South Korea's political, economic, social and national security systems and institutions. Examines the inter- relationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Provides a basic understanding of the observed society, striving for a dynamic portrayal. Particular attention is devoted to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and the issues on which they are divided, the nature and extent of their involvement with national institutions, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
Author : Timothy D. Hoyt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351558161
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy written by Timothy D. Hoyt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presesnts an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever.This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of the impact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defence planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective.
Author : David Owen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783468971
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Anti-Submarine Warfare written by David Owen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deep dive into the tactics and technology used to defend against submarines—from the opening of the First World War through World War II and beyond. The submarine was undoubtedly the most potent purely naval weapon of the twentieth century. In two world wars, enemy underwater campaigns were very nearly successful in thwarting Allied hopes of victory—indeed, annihilation of Japanese shipping by US Navy submarines is an indicator of what might have been. That the submarine was usually defeated is a hugely important story in naval history, yet this is the first book to treat the subject as a whole in a readable and accessible manner. It concerns individual heroism and devotion to duty, but also ingenuity, technical advances and originality of tactical thought. What developed was an endless battle between forces above and below the surface, where a successful innovation by one side eventually produces a countermeasure by the other in a lethal struggle for supremacy. Development was not a straight line: wrong ideas and assumptions led to defeat and disaster. “Iconography (with dozens of photographs and often large-format diagrams), a vast bibliography and a complete and documented general approach make this volume a work of great quality and of great interest for all enthusiasts and scholars of this very interesting subject.”—Storia Militare “The modeller will not only find the text engaging but there is a superb collection of photographs and illustrations which of course include submarines, corvettes and destroyers. Subjects which the modeller increasingly appreciates. Highly recommended.”—Model Boats
Author : Minoo H Patel
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 1483163326
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Compliant Offshore Structures written by Minoo H Patel and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compliant Offshore Structures deals with some aspects of the mechanics of compliant offshore structures. Analysis methods for determining the hydrostatic and hydrodynamic behavior, at wave frequencies only, of conventional and novel compliant structure types are described. The contribution of hull configuration for tandem hull vessels and of pneumatic compliances for ship shape and semi-submersible vessels is also emphasized. Comprised of 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the various conventional and emerging methods of hydrostatic and hydrodynamic analysis that are available for characterizing compliant marine structures. The response of compliant structures to ocean waves is given emphasis, along with the hydrostatic stability of a compliant vessel. The discussion then turns to the use of analysis methods for a variety of conventional and novel compliant structures such as semi-submersibles, ship forms, tensioned buoyant platforms, crane vessels, and vertical marine risers. However, those compliant structures that are believed to have a future application or, alternatively, are useful in illustrating an interesting performance feature are also considered. Among such structures are those with articulated joints, pneumatic compliances, and tandem hull marine vehicles. This monograph is intended for practicing engineers as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Author : Duk-Ki Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136326367
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Naval Strategy in Northeast Asia written by Duk-Ki Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, Northeast Asia has been dominated by quite significant strategic change, which is ongoing and brings with it many uncertainties. naval capabilities in Northwest Asia are instrumental in promoting maritime security interests - helping to build a stable security environment through active participation in regional naval co-operation. This landmark book explores the region's maritime peace and stability, and examines in depth the strategic, military and apolitical issues that underpin any effort to develop maritime co-operation.
Author : Benjamin Frankel
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780819175823
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (758 download)
Download or read book In the National Interest written by Benjamin Frankel and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader contains a sample of the best essays published in the foreign policy quarterly. The National Interest during its first four years. The period covered by this volume was a critical one for American foreign policy. It represented a recovery of confidence after the uncertainty and self-laceration of the 1960s and 1970s. But it was also a period when dramatic events in the communist world raised fundamental questions about the ending of the Cold War and about prevailing American foreign policy. The essays in this volume examine the basic and enduring questions of international politics and the national security of the United States. These and related issues are discussed in the reader by leading American policymakers, academics, and commentators. Co-published with The National Interest.
Author : Ola Tunander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135763291
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Secret War Against Sweden written by Ola Tunander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the stranding of a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine in 1981 on the Swedish archipelago, a series of massive submarine intrusions took place within Swedish waters.However, the evidence for these appears to have been manipulated or simply invented. Classified documents and interviews point to covert Western, rather than Soviet activity.
Author : Bruce W. Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000305740
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Naval Threat To Europe written by Bruce W. Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989. Given the events of 1987 and 1988-the death of Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, who had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy from 1956 to 1985 and was so influencial in the development of the current Soviet Navy, the Soviet policy of glasnost', the U .S.-Soviet arms negotiations, Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Washington, President Ronald Reagan's visit to Moscow, and the treaty concerning intermediate-range nuclear weapons- a study of the Soviet naval threat to Europe is particularly timely. This study begins by examining Soviet military and naval strategy, which provides a view of how the Soviets intend to use their forces. Then the book explore Soviet naval capabilities and operations, because a full understanding of Soviet naval power provides an understanding of the isolation that Europeans often feel. In the fourth and fifth sections of the book we examine the threat to northern and southern Europe.
