Soviet Motor Torpedo Boats of World War II
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 13 March 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781472866608
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages48 pages
- Size 246x182x6 mm
- Weight 166 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8 pages of colour illustrations 645
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Long description:
In the 1920s and 30s, aircraft designer Andrey Tupolev designed a series of advanced torpedo boats for the USSR. Superbly illustrated, this is their first history in English.
The Soviet Navy's fast attack craft were inspired by the 1919 Kronstadt raid, conducted by British hydroplaning, torpedo-armed Coastal Motor Boats (CMBs). The first were to be CMB copies, but with Soviet shipbuilding incapable of the project, it was handed to the Aerodynamic Institute, headed by Andrey Tupolev. Built with aircraft engines and technology, his 50kt boats were as photogenic as they were bumpy and noisy, and made a vivid impression on propaganda newsreels. Some were adapted with remote control guidance, a pioneering development of the naval drone.
Written by a former Soviet naval architect, this book is the first in English to offer a history of these fascinating, dashing craft. He explains that, technically advanced but flawed, the Sh-4 and G-5 had no opportunity to act in their designated role in World War II. Instead, some were employed instead as landing craft, while others were rearmed and used as minelayers or subchasers. Many were adapted as fire support craft with Katyusha rocket launchers installed.
Packed with superb new artwork and unpublished photos, it examines Tupolev's torpedo boats as well as the handful of other MTBs the Soviet Union fielded. It is an account of a rare impressive design in the prewar Soviet Navy.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
The development of the CMBs, 1915
CMBs in Russia, 1919
TORPEDO BOAT DEVELOPMENT
The Soviet 'Young School'
Pervenets
Sh-4 type
The G-5 type (ANT-5)
General arrangement
Series production
Corrosion
Remote control
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS
TORPEDO BOATS AT WAR
Organization
War production
Lend-lease
Performance
CONCLUSION
FURTHER READING
INDEX
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