AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LEXINGTON 1935
Autore: Carlo Cestra
Codice: 817EM015064
Collana in lingua inglese pubblicata dalla Kagero in Polonia. Ogni volume interamente illustrato con decine di disegni tridimensionali che rivelano ogni particolare e dettaglio della nave presa in esame (del ponte, delle torrette, degli armamenti, del radar, del sistema delle comunicazioni, ecc.). L’agile testo fornisce le principali notizie sull’origine, sviluppo e impiego della nave mentre svariate tabelle forniscono i dati tecnici relativi alla nave e ai suoi armamenti.
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The USS Lexington (CV-2) was the second aircraft carrier of Lexington class built by the United States, but the first used operationally; in fact the first was the USS Langley, but as an aircraft carrier she served only as an experimental ship. The history of the USS Lexington was troubled: in fact it was designed in 1916 to be an atypical battle cruiser, as little armored, but with heavy cannons. Because of the Washington Treaty of 1922 about the reduction of naval armaments, she was reclassified and converted into an aircraft carrier, capable of carrying a flight of 85 aircraft.
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