Harpoon 4 Data Annexes: Ships, Aircraft, & Weapons [Paperback]

Larry Bond (Author), Chris Carlson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1996

9604-57C. "This book provides platform, weapons and sensor information for naval systems used in Harpoon, fourth edrtrtion. It covers most of the major navies of the world, concentrating on the European and North American continents. Pacific navies will be covered in a separate supplement. Ship classes are listed alphabetically by country, and then from major to minor classes, and then from newest to oldest. Sometimes ship classes have more than one name, or for many ex-Soviet classes, a coed name in addition to a class or project name. A typical case is the British Sheffield class, commonly referred to as the 'Type 42" class in the UK. There is a class name index at the beginning of Annex A which cross-indexes all known names for a class to the appropriate listing and page numbers. Aircraft listings include data for all the major types. Where there was no significant difference between two marks of an aircraft they are combined into a single listing. Planes are listed alphabetically by country and then name. Although there are many books and periodicals which discuss modern weapons systems, they often disagee significantly on important specifications, or performance data. There is also a great difference in the amount of information provided by different countries. Most Western countries provide reasonably detailed statistics on their armaments, but the Swedish and Israelis publish almost nothing. The Soviets used to be incredibly close-mouthed, but the Russians, desperate for export dollars, now print an amazing amount of detail on their equipment. We have marked some sources in the bibliography that were especially useful."

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Clash of Arms Games (1996)
• ASIN: B000S2NR8C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,910,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)