![]() They've already proved themselves masters of the flight combat sim (there's the fabulous Wings Of Glory and Pacific Strike just for starters, and the spectacular Wing Commander series for which they developed the super fast 'RealSpace' engine) and now they want to take the whole thing to the next level by incorporating even more authentic and accurate data, realistic scenarios and true to life tactics - which means teaming up with Jane's. The perfect partnership?īut then so are the chaps at Origin. And thus, because he'd looked it all up in Jane's All The World's Aircraft, Q, would tell you that the AH64-D was armed with a McDonnell Douglas M230A-1 chain-driven 30mm cannon. If somehow you got a transfer from real life to a Bond movie and ended up back at Q,'s pad (a fiendish blackmail plot, perhaps), you would surely find that he has every issue of Jane's either piled under the bed or stacked up in the loo, and he'd read them every day. In fact, because it's so detailed and researched Jane's even have an office in the Pentagon, and regularly advise governments on military tactics and hardware development. Nowadays, Jane's is regarded as the military hardware bible, and publishes over 40 titles, including the esteemed Jane's Defence Weekly and International Defence Review, which are read the world over by Generals, Defence Ministers, squaddies and Israeli Fundamentalists alike. Come the turn of the century, Mr Jane had I already expanded his range to include I airships and aircraft as well as military I vehicles, and the whole thing has I grown ever since. It all began way back at the end of the last century (1898 to be exact) when a certain Fred Jane of Portsmouth published All The World's Fighting Ships - a rather comprehensive tome packed with the technical low I down on just about every naval vessel in the world, accompanied by Fred's I own hand-drawn illustrations. I Well, to cut a long story short, Jane's is the world authority on just about everything military, from hand guns to personnel carriers, bazookas to battleships. Yes, that's right - you'd look in Jane's, t So who, or what, exactly is Jane's? ![]() I Delia Smith's Almanac of Killer Pastrief! Or Jane's All The World's Aircraft? Sorry, I'm gonna have to hurry you here. If You Wanted To Know Just What I that rather sexy-looking piece of I hardware was that's bolted onto the front of the AH64-D Longbow, where do you reckon you would look? ![]()
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