Edward Hampshire

Soviet Cruise Missile Submarines of the Cold War

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The Soviet Union's cruise missile submarines from the modified Whiskey, to the Oscar II classes were among the most formidable vessels of the Cold War. They were initially designed to carry land attack nuclear-tipped cruise missiles designed to strike targets on the eastern coast of the United States. By the late 1960s, however, submarine-launched ballistic missiles made the nuclear land-attack mission unnecessary, so existing classes were converted to the 'carrier killer' role, armed with anti-ship cruise missiles designed to destroy US super-carriers and other important naval targets. This fully illustrated study examines these powerful mac… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Tooby, Adam (Illustr.)

ISBN: 978-1-4728-2500-1
EAN: 9781472825001
Produktnummer: 27263237
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 48 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 15'962 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Edward Hampshire is a historian at the Naval Historical Branch of the Ministry of Defence. He has lectured at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and worked for ten years at the United Kingdom National Archives. He has written on the Cold War at sea, British defence policy and intelligence history, and is currently researching British naval policy in the 1980s. His publications include From East of Suez to Eastern Atlantic, British Naval Policy 1964-70 and (co-authored) British Intelligence: Secrets, Spies and Sources.