US Heavy Cruisers in the World War II Part I: Technology and weapons of world wars [Kindle Edition]

US Heavy Cruisers in the World War II
Part I
Technology and weapons of world wars

This book is devoted to the history of the creation of American naval cruisers and the formation of the basis of naval forces' navy before the World War II. Also here you can find out about all the modifications that were made on these ships.

Content:
History of the US Navy Cruisers
The Pensacola type cruisers

During the Second World War, cruisers were rightfully considered one of the most important classes of warships. Smaller in size than battleships, but more numerous, cruisers actively participated in battles in all ocean theaters. They played a role and hunters acting in enemy waters, and defenders, covering their own communications.

The most vivid pages of the history of war at sea are in one way or another connected with these fast and well-armed ships, personifying the swiftness of the attack and the might of artillery fire. Perhaps no class of warships, except, perhaps, aircraft carriers, in the period between world wars developed so rapidly as a cruiser.

The ban on the construction of new battleships, proclaimed at the Washington conference in 1922, led to the fact that the efforts of shipbuilders in all countries of the world focused on designing cruisers, especially heavy ones. The latter almost came to replace the battleships, having received tower artillery, booking and the latest fire control systems. Thanks to a harmonious combination of combat characteristics, they remained in history as the most advanced ships of the epoch of the struggle between the projectile and armor.

The cruiser is a class of multi-purpose large high-speed surface artillery ships capable of carrying out various tasks of defense and attack, both independently and as part of ship formations. The variety of tasks carried out by the cruisers gave rise to a number of subclasses - specialized ships. So during the Second World War, they distinguished: linear cruisers, heavy and light, armored and armor-deck, mine and antiaircraft, carrier and training. Less than a third of cruisers of all types were built during the war, a third was pre-war, and the rest took part in the First World War.