Jane's Warship Recognition Guide

by Keith Faulkner, Jane's Information Group, Jane's

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0004722116
• ISBN13: 9780004722115
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: HarperResource
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

This is a must for those who love warships. It contains everything you want to know about a warship: weapons, performance, name, country... Very interesting for those like me who are in the navy.

Photographs are unclear, if not excellent

this is a good reference book but I would probably have to be soon updated as many warships are likely to be withdrawn as the Superpower competition has ended.Ballistic missile submarines are an obvious category. Future issues of this reference book may include ships such as the USN's proposed Arsenal Ship or amphibious assault ships.

A good general reference for any naval buff.

The book is a good addition to any professional salior or naval buff's library. 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.

A good guide for warship recognition

This is a wonderful book if your objective is to be able to identify ships. 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. It's worth the money spent to buy it.