Jane's Fighting Ships

The world-renowned Jane's Fighting Ships provides unrivaled coverage of the world's naval and coast guard vessels, supporting critical military and security processes by delivering reliable technical and program information on current and future naval capabilities, and providing maritime defense market intelligence that supports A&D businesses in crucial marketing, strategy and product development activity.

Jane's Fighting Ships will help you to:

• Evaluate competitors, potential business partners and acquisition targets
• Conduct maritime defense industry market research and competitor analysis
• Forecast likely future naval platform and related system capability requirements
• Accurately model current and emerging maritime threat scenarios
• Discover new market opportunities in the naval platform and related system sectors
• Identify and gather information on naval vessels detected whilst at sea

Jane's Fighting Ships is available in three formats:

• Online
• Full-color yearbook
• Offline
  • Intraspex (CD-ROM)
  • IHS Jane's Data Services (XML data)

Jane's Fighting Ships also forms part of IHS World Register of Ships, a comprehensive maritime intelligence resource providing detailed information on merchant and military vessels worldwide.

The online format of Jane's Fighting Ships provides you with additional benefits not available within the yearbook, including:

• Regular updates
• Powerful search capabilities
• Additional photographs and diagrams
• A worldwide naval inventory spreadsheet
• Comprehensive archive

Commodore Stephen Saunders
During a 32-year career in the Royal Navy, Stephen 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.

With profiles of over 4,300 naval platforms under development, in production and in service with the navies and coast guards of more than 165 countries, including main combatants, carriers, air warfare platforms, fast attack craft, mine countermeasures vessels (MCMVs), amphibious vessels and submarines, Jane's Fighting Ships remains the most comprehensive and reliable source of technical and program information on the world's naval platforms.

• Technical details, including data on dimensions, displacement, speed and range
• Development, construction and modernization programs
• Weapons systems and sensors
• Country inventories and overviews
• Naval aircraft
• Photographs, diagrams and silhouettes
• Suppliers and manufacturers
• The highly regarded annual executive overview of naval highlights, flags and ensigns, ranks and insignia, senior appointments and personnel numbers