Issue #15 of LOS! covers the USS Ranger CV-4, gray wolves of the US Navy, the Austro-Hungarian Navy and more.

In this issue:


The Colossus of Austria-Hungary - 1940 - 1943

If the Austro-Hungarian Navy does not shine by its fighting in the Great War, however, it aligns an armored fleet sufficient to deter its enemies prefer to avoid direct confrontation. Its strike force based on the four copies of the Tegetthoff class. The career of the first of them, called Viribus Unitis illustrates alone the contradictions of a marine constantly torn between modernity and conservatism.


Four cats & a torpedo - Italy - 1940 - 1943

At the beginning of World War II, the Italians realize too late that the high-altitude bombing was not expected against naval targets results, and then make the choice of torpedo planes. Almost everything remains to create and organize. Arrived late in the Mediterranean theater of operations, squadrons Aerosiluranti will have much to do to win.


The last campaign of U-Boote - 1944 - 1945

Having had to withdraw from the Atlantic due to unsustainable losses in 1943, the U-Bootwaffe do not despair resume medium term war convoys she led since 1939. This "strategic withdrawal" should allow the renewal of its fleet of submarines for a return to action in 1944, but the Allies took the Reich speed landing in Normandy. The Grand Admiral Dönitz will then review its strategy and focusing its attacks around the British Isles.


USS Ranger (CV-4) - 1934-1946

First ship aircraft carrier designed as such in the United States, the CV-4 comes after coal and other battlecruisers converted in the 1920s and announces "flat roofs" of the next generation. Born during the Great Depression and forming a kind of bridge between two eras, both the design of naval thought, Ranger still suffer from a somewhat experimental. However, it will take an active part in the fighting of World War II in areas where the U.S. Navy was very present.


Convoys to assist the Czar - 1915 - 1918

The history of naval convoys between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union is relatively well known for the period of the Second World War, but we often forget that during the Great War, in the winter of 1914-1915, the issue of maritime transit through the White Sea was of quite exceptional importance.


Gray wolves in the U.S. Navy

A decade after the commissioning of the USS Virginia, United States align ten units of this class of nuclear attack submarines (SNA) with a copy of industrial development. While eight are now in production or waiting to be, the Navy has ordered ten new buildings. Or how the Navy intends to maintain its technological leadership in the submarine area.

The uniform of the Marine

If the bachi and tassel are symbolic of the "crew members" Royal, marinara, pants and jacket bridge even present in many other navies, are also inseparable.

The turret of a battleship

At the time of sailing ships, navies have been constantly improving the firepower of onboard batteries. The appearance of the turret in the center of the upper deck is a revolution in the art of waging war at sea

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