Norman Friedman's Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery is recommended for its illustrations, technical detail, and comparison of national solutions. It also explains why promising weapons and mounts remained unfielded. Many development programmes assumed that the next war would begin in the 1940s, leaving little time to convert experiments into production after 1939. Repetition between national chapters reflects countries facing similar air-defence problems.
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A guide to naval anti-aircraft guns and delayed rearmament
Norman Friedman’s survey shows how pre-war weapons research was overtaken when war arrived earlier than planners expected.