Dreadnought gunnery and the Battle of Jutland : the question of fire control /
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era.With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many n...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Serie: | Cass series--naval policy and history ;
32. |
| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=115519 |
Sommario:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1 OLD CONTROVERSIES, NEW HISTORIES; 2 LONG-RANGE NAVAL GUNNERY; 3 PROGRESS IN GUNNERY; 4 A.C. AND ARGO; 5 THE DREYER TABLES; 6 INFLUENCES AND CHOICES; 7 INTO BATTLE; 8 JUTLAND AND AFTER; 9 AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE; APPENDIX; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX