Jane's Simulation and Training Systems

• Image generation
• Visual display, including head-mounted (VR) displays
• Simulators components, including trackers and touch-sensitive devices
• Motion systems
• Training systems
• Explanations of key technologies
• Diagrams, photographs and glossary
• Directory of over 700 simulation and training suppliers

• Understand the operational strengths and capabilities of different simulation and training systems on the market
• Gain realistic training through simulation at a fraction of the cost
• Monitor competitor activity
• Locate suppliers

The contents of Jane's Simulation and Training Systems include:

• Image generation 
• Visual display 
• Motion cueing 
• Simulator components 
• Land systems 
• Sea systems 
• Aviation systems 
• Multi-role systems

Jane's Simulation and Training 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:

• Monthly updates 
• Full search capabilities 
• A minimum five-year archive

Having specialized as a Signals Officer in 1978, he went on to hold a variety of communications appointments during his military career, including that of communications staff officer of 3 Commando Brigade and command of both 3 Commando Brigade Headquarters and Signal Squadron and the Royal Marines Signal Training Wing, as well as an exchange posting with the Army at the Royal School of Signals, Blandford. He attended the Army Staff College at Camberley in 1985-86, and subsequent appointments, outside communications, included Fleet Amphibious Intelligence officer on the staff of Commander-in-Chief Fleet, and within the Directorate of Naval Operations in the Ministry of Defence. In late 1996 he commanded the multi-national training team in the Baltic States as part of the Baltic Battalion project.

Giles Ebbutt retired from the Royal Marines in 1999 and very soon after was appointed editor of Jane's C4I Systems. More recently, in October 2006, he was also appointed editor of Jane's Simulation and Training Systems.

He is a regular contributor to Jane's Defence Weekly and Jane's International Defence Review, and was co-editor of Jane's World Armies 2005-2006. Giles is married with two daughters and currently lives outside Plymouth.

Huw R Williams
Huw Williams is the coordinating editor of Jane's Simulation and Training Systems. In addition to this role he is upgrades editor of Jane's International Defence Review. Outside of training and simulation, his main interest is in the area of unmanned systems. Huw has previously worked as assistant editor in biographical reference publishing and as a freelance copy editor for an East European business publisher. Prior to undertaking his second degree, he worked as an English teacher in Poland.

Huw holds a BA in Geography with a focus on East European Studies from the University of Nottingham, and an MS in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham, where his studies focused on economic and industrial restructuring, with a particular emphasis on the defense industry.

Qualifying as a pilot in 1989, he began his career in defense journalism and after working for a European publishing house, became a freelance journalist and consultant where he specializes in simulation and training. Living in Devon, he is married with three adult children.