Jane's Electro-Optic Systems

The new, revised Jane's Electro-Optic Systems details 1,330 military electro-optic equipment items, together with the larger army, navy and air force systems incorporating electro-optic elements.

This year's entries include:

• Manufacturer, development history, operational status, characteristics and specifications 
• Nearly all thermal imaging, image intensifier and laser modules

Jane's Electro-Optic Systems helps you:

• Maintain the highest level of reconnaissance 
• Compare the performance of electro-optic equipment worldwide 
• Stay apprised of electro-optic technologies 
• Locate suppliers 
• Research competitors' products

The contents of Jane's Electro-Optic Systems include:

• Land applications 
• Naval applications 
• Airborne applications 
• Key technologies 
• Manufacturers' list

Jane's Electro-Optic Systems is available in three formats:

• Online 
• Yearbook 
• Offline data feed

The online format provides you with many benefits not available with the yearbook, including:

• Continuous online updates 
• Full search capabilities 
• Additional reference content, analysis, and images 
• A five-year archive

In October 1976, Michael moved to DEFENCE magazine where he spent 17 years, eight of them as editor, before joining Jane's Information Group in December 1993 to edit Jane's Defence Systems Modernisation. In 1997, this evolved into Jane's Defence Upgrades. With the incorporation of Jane’s Defence Upgrades into International Defence Review in June 2003, he became International Defence Review's upgrades editor. Since the reorganization of the editorial department, he works through the Air Desk, principally on Jane’s Electro-Optic Systems.

Between 1972 and 1979, Michael produced the aircraft modeling and aviation interest pages for Air Cadet News, the newspaper of the Air Training Corps, in which he served as a Flying Officer in the Training Branch of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (1972-1986). Over the years, he has contributed to many magazines, including AIR International, Air Pictorial and Armada International. He was also the last editor of the Airfix Magazine in 1993. Together with Günter Endres, he has produced three editions of Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide (the most recent appearing in July 2007), and among his other solo published works are Sky Guardians - the Air Defence of Great Britain, Air Power 2000 and F-15 Eagle.

An associate member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists, Michael also belongs to Air-Britain (Historians) and the Air Power Association. When time allows, he still enjoys building scale model aircraft.  He is married with a son (in the RAF) and a daughter and lives in deepest Sussex (where he serves as vice chairman of the Sussex Weald Branch of the Royal British Legion).