Jane's Defence Weekly

Jane's Defence Weekly (abbreviated as JDW) is a weekly magazine reporting on military and corporate affairs, edited by Peter Felstead. It is one of a number of military-related publications named after John F. T. Jane, an Englishman who first published Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships in 1898. It is a unit of Janes Information Services. The magazine is frequently cited in publications worldwide.^[4]

Jane's Defence Weekly

Cover for 20 May 2020 edition.
Editor	Peter Felstead[1]
Features Editor	Kate Tringham[1]
Europe Editor	Nicholas Fiorenza[1]
Asia Pacific Editor	Gabriel Dominguez[1]
Middle East/Africa Editor	Jeremy Binnie[1]
Americas Editor	Daniel Wasserbly[1]
Staff writers	Geoff Fein Marina Malenic Jon Grevatt [1]
Categories	Defence
Frequency	Weekly
Paid circulation	2,717[2]
Unpaid circulation	24,886[2]
Total circulation (June 2012)	27,603[2]
Founded	1984[3]
Company	Janes Information Services
Country	England
Based in	Coulsdon, Surrey
Language	English
Website	www.janes.com/defence-news/
ISSN	0265-3818
OCLC	613908494

History

Jane's Defence Weekly was established in 1984 replacing the now-defunct Jane's Defence Review.^[3] The latter was started in 1978 and was published on a monthly basis.^[5] Award winning international journalist Clifford Beal is a former editor of the magazine.^[6]

Samuel Loring Morison

In 1984, only months after the magazine was established, Jane's Defence Weekly gained worldwide attention after printing several images from an American spy satellite of the Nikolaiev 444 shipyard in the Black Sea, showing a Kiev-class aircraft carrier under construction.^[7] The images were leaked by Samuel Loring Morison, an American intelligence professional, leading to the only conviction ever passed against a US government official for giving classified information to the press.^[7][8]

References

1. "Jane's Defence Weekly Editorial Team". Janes.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
2. "Business TRAC – June 2012" (PDF). BPA Worldwide. June 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
3. "Jane's Defence Weekly information". Aeroflight. 19 August 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
4. See, for example:
   "Israel masses troops on border". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 July 2006. Archived from the original on 14 November 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
   Knight, Will (4 August 2004). "North Korean hybrid missiles 'could threaten US'". New Scientist. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
   "British Publication Warns of North Korean Missiles". The Chosun Ilbo. 8 April 2004. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
   "N Korea missiles 'could reach US'". BBC News. 3 August 2004. Archived from the original on 2 December 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
   "Soviet Agents Joined UK Missile-base Protest". Ottawa Citizen. 21 January 1986. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
5. "Aviation Magazines". Aircraft International. Archived from the original on 28 May 2007. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
6. "Clifford Beal". sheil-land. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
7. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XyMjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c84FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4321,5157743 ^{[dead link‍]}
8. Lewis, Anthony (3 March 2001). "Abroad at Home; The Pardons in Perspective". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2017.