Jane's Fighting Ships

Jane's Fighting Ships has served as the definitive guide to the world's navies and coast guards since 1898. This valuable resource allows you to recognize and compare various war ships and maritime aircraft while also evaluating the evolving capabilities of 165 modern navies around the world. The information this comprehensive resource provides will allow you to make better informed decisions when evaluating new technology and systems while also identifying new market opportunities.

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The contents of Jane's Fighting Ships include:

• Construction and modernization programs 
• Key dimensions, displacement, speed and range data 
• Weapon systems, sensors and structure 
• Country overviews 
• Special sections on US command-and-control arrangements and communications and data systems

Jane's Fighting Ships is available in three formats:

• Online 
• CD-ROM 
• Yearbook

The online format of Jane’s Fighting Ships provides you with many benefits not available with the CD-ROM or yearbook, including:

• Continuous online updates 
• Search capabilities 
• Additional photographs and diagrams 
• An 18-year archive 
• Exclusive access to a downloadable worldwide naval inventory spreadsheet

Jane's Fighting Ships is your indispensible reference to the changing capabilities of 165 navies and coast guards worldwide, providing detailed information on war ships, aircraft and weapon systems in service and under construction.

Jane's Fighting Ships contents include:

• 4,257 total entries
• Authoritative inventories for 165 navies around the world
• Key specifications for those navies' ships, aircraft and weapon systems
• An annual executive overview of naval highlights, flags and ensigns, ranks and insignia, senior appointments and personnel numbers

The 2011-2012 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships includes:

• 147 new entries
• 2,073 revised entries
• 895 new illustrations

• United States: Virginia class submarines, Ford class aircraft carrier, DDG 1000, extended building line of the Arleigh Burke Flight IIA destroyers, Littoral Combat ships (both variants) and Joint High Speed Vessel
• China: Yuan class submarines, aircraft carrier (ex-Varyag), Luyang class destroyers, potential corvette programme, Yuzhao class assault ship, complete revision of Government Maritime forces organisation and force levels
• India: Indigenous nuclear submarine (Arihant), Scorpene class submarines, Vikramaditya and indigenous aircraft carriers, Kolkata class destroyers, Talwar and Shivalik class frigates, Kamorta class corvettes, Saryu and Car Nicobar class patrol vessels, Deepak class tankers. Coast Guard (in significant expansion programme): Sankalp, Samudra, Vishwast, Rani Abbakka and new 50m patrol vessel classes
• Russia: Borey, Yasen and Kilo class submarines, Steregushchiy, Admiral Gorshkov and Admiral Grigorovich class frigates, Buyan-M patrol ships, Mistral class assault ships
• France: Aquitaine class frigates
• Italy: Proposed assault ship programme
• Norway: Fridtjof Nansen class frigates and Skjold class patrol vessels
• Turkey: Milgem class corvette, Tuzla class patrol vessels, LST and LCT landing ship programmes
• UK: Astute class submarines and Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers
• Australia: Future submarine program, Hobart class destroyers and Canberra class assault ships
• Japan: Souryu class submarines, Hyuga and 22DDH class helicopter carriers and Akizuki class destroyers
• South Korea: KSS-2 submarines, KDX-3 destroyers, FFX frigate, Gumdoksuri class patrol craft
• Brazil: Indigenous nuclear and Scorpene class submarines, Macaé class patrol vessels

Commodore Stephen Saunders, Editor
During a 32-year career in the Royal Navy, Stephen Saunders traveled extensively and worked with many different navies. A surface-ship officer and anti-submarine warfare specialist, he served in most classes of warship from mine countermeasures vessels to aircraft carriers. He commanded the frigate HMS SIRIUS and, as Captain 1st Frigate Squadron, HMS COVENTRY; in this role he also commanded the Royal Navy's Armilla Patrol when deployed to the Gulf. His broad staff experience comprised attachment to the NATO staff of Commander US 6th Fleet and several tours in the Ministry of Defence, London. Appointments in Naval Operational Requirements and Defence Concepts led to his final job as Director Force Development within the Defence Policy Division. He graduated from the National Defence College, Latimer, in 1982 and the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1994. Since leaving the Royal Navy in 1998, he has worked in the shipbuilding industry and as a defense consultant.