Janes is a global

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company specialising in

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and transport topics, whose name derives from British author Fred T. Jane.

History

Jane's Information Group was founded in 1898 by Fred T. Jane, who had begun sketching ships as an enthusiast naval artist while living in

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. This gradually developed into an encyclopedic knowledge, culminating in the publishing of ''All the World's Fighting Ships'' (1898). The company then gradually branched out into other areas of military expertise. The books and

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s published by the company are often considered the ''de facto'' public source of information on warfare and transportation systems. Based in

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for most of its existence, the group was owned by the

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, the Woodbridge Company, then

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, before being acquired by

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in 2019. In March 2022, Janes acquired Washington, D.C.-based RWR Advisory Group.

Description

The company name is officially Jane's Information Group, and it is located in

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. The company continues to provide

in the defence, security, aerospace and transport sectors.

Publications

Of their publications, books (published annually) include '' Jane's All the World's Aircraft'', '' Jane's Fighting Ships'', '' Jane's Military Communications'', ''Jane's World Air Forces'',IHS Web site
/ref> ''Jane's World Navies'', and '' Jane's World Railways''. Periodicals include '' Jane's Defence Weekly'', '' Jane's Intelligence Review'', '' Jane's International Defence Review'', and '' Jane's Navy International''. '' Jane's Police Review'' (2011) and '' Jane's Airport Review'' (2019) were discontinued. Jane's '' All the World's Aircraft'' and '' Fighting Ships'' are included in the 2019 edition of the

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as references for proper notation of aircraft and military ship names. '' Jane's Combat Simulations'' was a brand of computer flight simulation games and naval warfare simulations produced between 1996 and 2000 under license to

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