Tanks and Combat Vehicles Recognition Handbook (Jane’s) (Jane's Recognition Guides) - Softcover

Since the publication of the first edition in 1996, Jane’s Tanks Recognition Guide has been the most authoritative and comprehensive military vehicle handbook available. This new edition maintains this high standard with complete coverage of every tank and AFV in use today.

Janes Tanks and Combat Vehicles Recognition Guide is a fully illustrated encyclopaedia of all modern military vehicles in service today. It includes tanks, personnel carriers, reconnaissance vehicles, self-propelled guns and self-propelled anti-aircraft systems.

This book features:
· Technical data for over 200 vehicles
· Recognition features
· Line drawings
· Over 1000 photographs

This fully-updated third edition features colour photography, making it much easier to distinguish key features of the vehicles.

Technical information includes: Specifications, Development of the design, Variants, Status of production, Manufacturer's details and key recognition details.

This new edition comes in a handy size, and its new format is user friendly, allowing for an even greater range of vehicles and additional information to be included.

Chris F Foss has been writing on armoured fighting vehicles and artillery systems since 1970 and has written and edited well over 60 books on this and allied subjects including air defence systems. He has also edited a major defence magazine and contributed on a wide range of land based weapon systems to countless magazines world wide. Besides lecturing on AFVs around the world Foss has also driven well over 40 tracked and wheeled armoured vehicles and chaired a number of major defence conferences on armoured fighting vehicles and artillery systems. He is married with 3 grown up children.