Conway Martime Press - The World's Worst Warships (Antony Preston)

Although the subject of warship-design might be dismissed as a pastime for professionals and an even smaller nerdish audience, this reflects nothing more than ignorance among many 'mainstream' naval historians. Yet ever since navies became formal national organisations the quality of ships has been a major factor in both their successes and their failures. To those of us who study navies, one of the fascinating aspects is the complexity of the subject, which encompasses engineering, economics, sociology and even psychology. Landsmen are mostly unaware of the incontrovertible fact that a ship is the largest mobile structure on the planet. Warships take the story even further, because they combine the complex engineering inherent in shipbuilding with the unavoidable fact that they are intended to tight other ships and to take hits from their opponents. Because naval architects are often unwilling to discuss their profession (and naval designers arc usually required to be very discreet) their key role in the achievement of designing and building a ship is not common knowledge. The result is a serious lack of understanding on the part of most of the public and the media.

Автор: Antony Preston
Издательство: Conway Maritime Press Ltd.
Язык: Английский
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 194
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