Aircraft Carrier Impero: The Axis Powers' V-1 Carrying Capital Ship - Couverture rigide

Jabes, D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781556776 ISBN 13 : 9781781556771

Editeur : Fonthill Media Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

From 1941, Italy had been developing a top-secret project to install guided rocket weapons aboard aircraft carriers. Campini Capron s revolutionary guided rocket weapon, the DAAC, which would later become Hitler s Henschel HS-117 Schmetterling ( Butterfly ), was the selected projectile. Classified intelligence on the V-1 flying bomb and other aircraft projects were acquired and then discarded when Ansaldo s naval architect, Lino Campagnoli (1911 1975), issued plans for the Impero battleship to be transformed into a modern fleet carrier. Previously unpublished documentation reveals how the last of the four state-of-the-art Littorio-class battleships, which was in advanced completion (hull components and engines installed), was destined for conversion into a modern aircraft carrier. This is an exhaustive historical review of the Impero and Regia Marina s (Royal Navy) developments as well as the dramatic story of the lack of co-operation and strategic insight with Regia Aeronautica before and during the war (1922-1943). Also, a final evaluation of the revolutionary Pugliese anti-torpedo system, based on unpublished German and Russian documentation, is assessed.

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À propos de l'auteur

Davide F. Jabes received his PhD in History from the University of York. He has worked as a consultant and researcher in modern history for the University of Siena, and several research institutes, as well as many publishing houses, and has also written a book on Italian soldiers during the Second World War. Stefano Sappino has a Master s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a career as an executive for large service company. Involved as a scholar in naval history from the 1970s, he focuses on navies building strategies as well as the design and operational history of capital ships and cruisers. The what if warships those that were designed but not built, or not entered service are of particular interest. His maritime history blog, stefsap.wordpress.com, is a reference for naval enthusiasts around the world. Bruno Luserne D Angrogne, a Belgian medical doctor and specialist in forensic pathology, has been a professor in legal medicine since 2002. Before his medical studies, he attended the Army Officers School and graduated as an airborne lieutenant, his scientific area of research is ballistic wounds. As a forensic pathologist, he attended the Bosnia mission in 1999 for UN-ICTY and Kosovo 2000 for UN-ICTY.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fonthill Media Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781556776
• ISBN 13: 9781781556771
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 255
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• Personne responsable: non disponible