Jane's Warship Recognition
Guide
Author: Keith
Faulkner, Robert Hutchinson (Introduction), Richard Sharpe
512 pages Revised edition (May 1999)
Publisher: Harper Resource
ISBN: 0004722116
Dimensions (in inches): 1.45 x 4.96 x 7.44
Notes: Book pictures are in
black and white. Statistical book, with drawings and picture of
aircraft.

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Decription:
The essential guide to all the world's fighting ships. Jane's Warship
Recognition Guide shows you how to identify all the world's fighting
ships. Fully updated since the 1996 edition, it is organized in
a new way that makes it easier to look up ship types in service
with more than one navy. Now you can directly compare how different
fleets have armed and equipped warships from the same class. A comprehensive
index has been added. Over 200 classes of warship are covered with:
Class and ship names. Weapon systems and radars. Full page photographs
of every warship. Detailed line diagrams. Key recognition features
Table of Contents:
Ed's
Analysis:
Similar in desgin to all previous and future Jane's Recognition
guides. The pictures, for the most part are of good quality, but
some are of little value as they are bow-on or stern-on shots. Also,
the author gets the California and Virginia class vessels of the
USN (CGNs) mixed together when they are two distinct classes. However,
as all vessels of both classes are (or soon will be) no longer in
service it is not a big issue. With the rapid pace of naval events
a newer edition is needed; say in 2000-2001. The key recognition
features of each class is a good feature, allowing the reader to
pick them up from the picture on the opposite page. It has a lot
of detailed explainations on how to look for distinguishing features
such as what type of mast a ship has, how many funnels, locations
of weapon systems, what shape the forecastle is etc. It also gives
detailed line drawings of the side view of each ship to make identification
easy. So, if all you want to do is to be able to recognise the ships,
then this is the guide for you. On the down side, it does lack some
details a military buff might be interested in, such as how many
missiles of each particular type are carried, range of the various
electronic sensors onboard, range of the main armament and things
like that. Therefore, if you want to know those kinds of details
you will have to find another book. On the whole though, this is
a very comprehensive book, which covers MOST of the ships in service
today, so it's actually pretty useful.

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