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Twenty-First Century Warships

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This book is a major disapointment, as it is pretty much just a few ships from many different navies with little in the way of descriptions or information. Why these ships were chosen is not explained, and there is so little information about each one, that it is impossible to make any sort of generalizations about them. Even worse, the information presented could be found almost anywhere, and there is nothing new here. It does not seem that the author has anything new to add. For example, the French carrier Charles De Gaulle is presented, but the author presents nothing in the way of why it was built, the problems it has had, and the interesting anti-roll feature is mentioned, but there is no explanation as to what it is or how it works. Also, and this is a major problem, there are no dates given so it is difficult to tell the ages of the ships and if they are new or at the end of their lives.

Save your money.

This is a bad book in that it only covers a few ships out of a few major navies of the world it only book mentions things about different classes of ships but then never explains how the changes were done. Which leaves the reader with no idea of how a warship weapons system operates.

This book would be good in a child's library but not in an person with an interest in naval systems. In short don't buy this book if you want to see a majority of the type of ships in a modern navy. Buy Jane's.