Product Description

This is an authoritative guide to the world's warships. The "Jane's Recognition Guides" are top-of-the-range, and this guide to over 2,200 warships is no exception. This is an essential for all naval and military enthusiasts. Using up-to-date photography and data from the world famous "Jane's Fighting Ships", "Jane's Warships Recognition Guide" is the most authoritative naval reference guide from the defence experts available to the general public. In its popular compact and user-friendly format, it is now even easier to study warship types from around the globe, either out and about, at displays or at home. Whatever your level of interest or knowledge this book is indispensable, with composite diagrams at the front to help the less experienced find their way around any warship or submarine, to the detailed technical data and silhouette illustrations to help with horizon or sun backed views. The contents include: foreword about this book; composite warship; types of warship masts; composite submarine; aircraft carriers; cruisers; destroyers; frigates; corvettes; Patrol Forces; Amphibious Forces; Mine Warfare Forces; submarines; NATO Stanag designations used in this book; glossary; and index.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33037 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author
Tony Watts

Customer Reviews

Not bad, for contextual reading only
Anybody looking to prepare for thier AIB would do well to buy this book. However treat it only as secondary research, don't rely on it for the main bulk of preparation. Ideally the main book is the MOD RN Handbook (also on Amazon) because its totally dedicated to the RN and very detailed.

This book provides basic to semi-detailed info on all important fleet vessels and is good to get an idea of how the RN compares to other Navies.

A lot of info crammed into a single volume: brief profiles
39 submarine types, 18 carrier types, 5 cruiser types, 42 destroyer types, 71 frigate types, 28 corvette types, 58 'patrol forces', 21 'amphibious forces' and 16 'mine warfare forces'; plus a few general images to indicate terms, a glossary of abbreviations, and an index.
There is a lot of info here, on the navies of the world; from single-ship classes like the UK's Ocean, to multi-ship classes like the 39 active patrol boats of the 'La Combattante II' class servig with Chile, Egypt, Georgia, Greece and Iran.

For each entry you get specs on displacement, size, speed, range, much detail on armament and electronics, which navies and under which names/designations; plus some notes on how-to-recognize features (lattice mast/high bow with continuous maindeck/seawolf SAM 6-barrel launcher in B mounting position are some examples); a colour photograph and a small silhouette. No data on year of build, no way of seeing which navy has which ships, but it does what it says: it will help you recognize warships. A few 'artist impressions' but mostly crips and clear photographs. The silhouettes are tiny and could have been bigger quite easily, what with the amount of white space on most pages! The back cover tells us it contains 'detailed line drawings' - but that must refer to four pages of terms-with-illustrations at the beginning.

Still, the best available at the moment with world-wide coverage. No experimentals like the Seafighter, but a good overview of serving ships.