The Royal Navy emerged from the Second World War with the second largest fleet of aircraft carriers in the world and a year later had achieved the worlds first landing and takeoff by a jetpowered aircraft from an aircraft carrier. The traditional roles of reconnaissance, aerial defence of the fleet and attack were joined by antisubmarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. Technological advances in jet propulsion and helicopters offered new tactical possibilities, as well as new practical problems to be overcome to enable their operation from carriers. From the early 1950s the Fleet Air Arm operated a wide range of aircraft, from fighterbombers, such as the Hawker Sea Hawk, to fully fledged nucleararmed Blackburn Buccaneers and allweather fighters like the de Havilland Sea Vixen and McDonnell Douglas F4K Phantom. Westlands family of antisubmarine helicopters, the Wasp, Wessex, Sea King and Lynx operated from a wide range of ships, ranging from small frigates to carrier decks. Defence cutbacks that saw the retirement of the fleet carriers and the transfer of the Phantoms and Buccaneers in 1978, but the British Aerospace Sea Harrier operating from smaller antisubmarine carriers maintained the Navys fixedwing combat capability, this being memorably demonstrated in the South Atlantic in 1982. Today, the Royal Navy operates two modern carriers and shares the aviation commitment with the Royal Air Force, flying the most modern fighter in the world, the vertical takeoff and landing...

Binding: Hardback;400 pages; Publisher: Crecy Publishing; Classification: WGM; Weight: 2054 g; Dimensions: 304 x 222 x 33

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