Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930
Композитор: John Jordan
Название: Warships After Washington: The Development of the Five Major Fleets 1922-1930
Издательство: Seaforth Publishing
Годочек: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 29 Mb
Язык: English
The Washington Treaty of 1922, designed to head off a potentially dangerous arms race between the major naval powers, agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers and sizes of the principal warship types. In doing so, it introduced a new constraint into naval architecture and sponsored many ingenious attempts to maximise the power of ships built within those restrictions. It effectively banned the construction of new battleships for a decade, but threw greater emphasis on large cruisers.