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Submarine Design and Development 
by Norman Friedman

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Stealth - the Nature of
Submarine Warfare
France and Italy
World War II "Wolfpack" tactics
The U-boat war 1939-45
US Pacific War tactics
Chapter 2 
Design Constraints and
Compromises
Diving depth and pressure hulls 
Hull materials and forms 
Conning towers and periscopes 
Powerplants 
Chapter 3 
The Era ofthe
Submersible 1900-1945
Before 1914 
World War I 
Submarine minelaying 
Anti-submarine warfare 
Between the wars: Britain 
Between the wars: United States and
Japan 
Japanese midget submarines 
Japanese submarines in World War II 
World War II U-boats
Chapter 4
The Fast Submarine
Walter"s hydrogen peroxide U-boat 
Walter"s later U-boats 
The snorkel 
Doenitz and the Type XXI U-boat 
Type XXI armament and tactics 
British Type XXI imitations 
Postwar Allied evaluations 
USS Tang 
HMS Porpoise
The French Narval 
US "Guppy" conversion 
Revision of ASW 
"Bottom-Bounce" and "Convergence zone"
sonar phenomena 
US ASW submarine fleet plans 
New US submarine sonar 
US 1950 "Hunter killer" tactics  
Chapter 5
Postwar Development
in the West
US radar pickets
Direct support of surface forces
US ASW submarines
US cruise missile submarines
Polaris
...etc...etc...

Product Details
Hardcover: 192 pages 
Publisher: Naval Inst Pr (June 1984) 
Language: English 

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