The 8.8cm Flugzeugabwehrkanone 18/36/37/41
- more popularly known as the ' Flak 88'
- was one of the most successful & influential
The Inter-City 125 was the brand name of British Rail's High Speed Train (HST) fleet, which was built from 1975 to 1982 & was
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Designed & built to challenge an aggressive French shipbuilding programme in the late 1850s, when commissioned the 40-gun steam-powered ironclad HMS Warrior was the largest warship in the world.
The revolutionary design housed the main guns, 10 boilers & steam engine inside an impregnable armoured box or citadel made from 41/2in thick wrought iron plates.
Warrior is the only surviving example of Britains Black Battlefleet
- the 45 iron hulls built for the Royal Navy between 1861 & 1877.
She was restored in the 1980s & is now on public display at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781785211065
• Format: Hardback
• Author: Richard May
• Publisher: Haynes
• Pages: 188
• Dimensions: 28 x 22 x 2cm