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Submarine technology for the 21st century / by Stan Zimmerman.

Title: Submarine technology for the 21st century / by Stan Zimmerman.
Author: Zimmerman, Stan.
Publication: Victoria, B.C. : Trafford, c2000.

Details

Description

iv, 219 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Submarine technology for the twenty-first century

Subject

Submarines (Ships)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The increasingly desirable submarine -- Nuclear propulsion heat engines -- Air-independent propulsion heat engines -- Chemical AIP: silent power -- Hulls, polymers and hydrodynamics -- Silence makes perfect -- Weapons expand the lethal envelope -- The sensors of a submarine -- Tomorrow's submarines.

ISBN

1552123308
9781552123300