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01.10.2021 23:08:08
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WWII; Танки;
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THE VULNERABILITY OF CAPITAL SHIPS TO AIR ATTACK
COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE
THE VULNERABILITY OF CAPITAL SHIPS TO AIR ATTACK
Report by a Sub-Committee
July 30, 1.936
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59. We have given full consideration to the information already available as a result of the various experiments and it is plain to us that capital ships cannot be constructed so as to be indestructible by bombing from the air. This would probably be true even if factors of speed, armament and weight were disregarded in the design of the ship so that the thickness of the defensive armour could be indefinitely increased. If this fact, which we regard as being beyond the possibility of doubt, is kept in mind, it throws light on some of the more extravagant criticisms of the policy of building capital ships. The critics have written and spoken as if the issue was between those who deny and those who assert the vulnerability of capital ships to air attack. That is not the real question. In circumstances favourable to an attack from the air which could be driven home by a large and powerful force the most heavily armoured capital ship could no doubt be destroyed, or at least seriously crippled.