Janes Combat Simulations

In the early 1990’s software publishing giant Electronic Arts combined forces with military analysts and publishers Janes to form Janes Combat Simulations. They developed a series of combat flight simulators for commercial release which were to combine the enormous technical resources of Janes with the programming and development track record of Brent Iverson. The flight models were not the best, but quickly fans created editors to tweak every parameter of the aircraft and ordnance. The focus had been established in consultation with Chuck Yeager and it aimed to recreate the decision making processes of a pilot in air combat. It certainly led to hundreds of thousands of folks spending hundreds of hours each setting up scenarios and seeing what happened. In October 2001 Xicat Interactive signed an agreement with Jane's Information Group to continue the military games suspended by Electronic Arts. This included the much anticipated Jane's Attack Squadron by Mad Doc Software, which had been sidelined for a year.