![]() ![]() As carriers became more expensive to operate, the Royal Navy had to scrap its conventional fast jets and introduce a new generation of light carriers designed for the innovative Harrier "jump jet". Renowned naval historian Angus Konstam explains how the World War II carriers were rebuilt in a pioneering modernization that allowed them to operate a new generation of naval jets. Illustrated throughout with new profiles of the key carriers and their development, as well as a cutaway of HMS Victorious and superb new illustrations of the carriers in action, this book explains how the Royal Navy's air power changed throughout the Cold War and beyond. But most famously, they were the key to the Royal Navy's victory in the Falklands campaign, and they went on to fight in the two Iraq wars. Royal Navy carriers fought in the Korean War with the UN fleet, in the debacle at Suez and in British operations in the last days of the Empire, in Malaya, Borneo and Aden. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Royal Navy's carrier fleet proved essential to the post-war world. ![]() The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans. ![]()
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