Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001

by NormanPolmar (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2005

  $59.70

  Although enjoying a similar technology base, by the 1990s the superpowers had created submarine fleets of radically different designs and capabilities. Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore demonstrate in this landmark study how differing submarine missions, antisubmarine priorities, levels of technical competence, and approaches to submarine design organizations and management caused the divergence.