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Blandford - Submarines in Colour
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After a hundred years of crude experiment in underwater propulsion, the submarine in 1875 was mated with the self-propelled torpedo and in World War I emerged as an offensive weapon capable of exerting a major influence on naval and economic warfare. In both World Wars, the submarine if at times held on a tight rein was more often allowed to range freely. By 1945, several revolutions had taken place: the submarine, at one time described by an English admiral as a 'damned un-English weapon', afforded no mercy to the enemy and sank all kinds of ships; a dramatic improvement had been obtained in submerged speeds of underwater craft; but new and effective ways had 
also been devised of locating and destroying them.


In 1956, nuclear propulsion and the new 'cruise' missile armaments transformed the submarine from its lone function as a hunter into potentially a much wider role. But the development in the early 1960's of the ballistic missile in naval operations, the 'mating of the shark and the eagle', as an American admiral called it, converted the submarine into the prime instrument of deterrence. Today submarines larger than any other new combat ship save aircraft carriers can voyage swiftly and silently to deliver the death-blow to any nation on earth; the seas, deprived of their traditional surface navies, have now assumed a greater importance than ever before in the logistics of world defence strategy...

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