Binding: Hardcover
Description: An essential new account of how anti - submarine warfare is conducted with a focus on both historic and present - day operations. This new book shows how until 1944 U - boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied anti - submarine countermeasures had forced the Germans to modify their existing U - boats with the schnorkel. Countermeasures along also pushed the development of high - speed U - boats capable of continuously submerged operations. This study shows how these improved submarines became benchmark of the post - war Russian submarine challenge. Royal Navy doctrine was developed by professional anti - submarine officers and based on the well - tried combination of defensive and offensive anti - submarine measures that had stood the press of time since 1917, notwithstanding considerable technological change. This consistent and holistic view of anti - submarine warfare has not been understood by most of the subsequent historians of these anti - submarine campaigns and this book provides an essential and new insight into how Cold War and indeed modern anti - submarine warfare is conducted.
Title: The Royal Navy And Anti - Submarine Warfare 1917 - 49
Author(s): Llewellyn - Jones Malcolm
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415385329
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 12/8/2005
Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
Category: Warfare & Defence