This video of a different incident at Jane's Defence Weekly's article on Wang Wei (the Chinese fighter that hit the US plane, causing that not-quite-hostage crisis) is pretty interesting. There were a lot of people aboard the US plane, so it has no flavor of the Red Baron-dogfight as I imagined the skies during this kind of incident.
Jane's is definitely not your usual subscriber news service. Running at, for example, USD 26,200.00 for the "Defence Equipment Library" they are out of my budget, but I'm trying to decide which free alerts to go for.
I love that there is this entity, collecting data on all sides of conflicts, publishing it to paying customers with high standards, bliping alongside the square media like CNN.
Fred T. Jane seems like quite a character, what with the sci-fi writing, the interest in explosives, and the founding of an intelligence empire and all. He'd probably be in jail in this age.
Posted by argus at September 21, 2003 04:36 PM