Jane's Defence Weekly
{{Short description|British weekly magazine focussing on military matters}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2013}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Jane's Defence Weekly
| image_file = Jdw cover.jpg
| image_alt = Janes Defence Weekly Cover
| image_caption = Cover for 20 May 2020 edition.
| editor_title = Editor
| editor_title2 = Features Editor
| editor_title3 = Europe Editor
| editor_title4 = Asia Pacific Editor
| editor_title5 = Middle East/Africa Editor
| editor_title6 = Americas Editor
| previous_editor =
| staff_writer = Geoff Fein
Marina Malenic
Jon Grevatt
| photographer =
| category = Defence
| frequency = Weekly
| circulation =
| paid_circulation = 2,717{{cite web |url=http://www.bpaww.com/Bpaww_com/HTML/business/Business%20TRAC%20June%2012.pdf | title=Business TRAC – June 2012 |publisher=BPA Worldwide |date=June 2012 |access-date=26 March 2013}}
| circulation_year = June 2012
| publisher =
| founder =
| firstdate =
| company = Janes Information Services
| country = England
| language = English
| website = {{URL|https://www.janes.com/defence-news/}}
| issn = 0265-3818
| oclc = 613908494
}}
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.See, for example:
{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/world/israel-plans-quick-raids/2006/07/22/1153166620716.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |title=Israel masses troops on border |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=22 July 2006 |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=14 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114190731/http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/israel-plans-quick-raids/2006/07/22/1153166620716.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 |url-status=live }}
{{cite web |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6242-north-korean-hybrid-missiles-could-threaten-us.html |title=North Korean hybrid missiles 'could threaten US' |work=New Scientist |date=4 August 2004 |access-date=26 March 2013 |first=Will |last=Knight |archive-date=5 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005020128/http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6242-north-korean-hybrid-missiles-could-threaten-us.html |url-status=live }}
{{cite web |url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2004/08/04/2004080461008.html |title=British Publication Warns of North Korean Missiles |work=The Chosun Ilbo |date=8 April 2004 |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=4 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004223708/http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2004/08/04/2004080461008.html |url-status=dead }}
{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3531956.stm |title=N Korea missiles 'could reach US' |publisher=BBC News |date=3 August 2004 |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-date=2 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061202223707/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3531956.stm |url-status=live }}
{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S68yAAAAIBAJ&pg=4631,44032 |work=Ottawa Citizen |date=21 January 1986 |access-date=26 March 2013 |title=Soviet Agents Joined UK Missile-base Protest |archive-date=1 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201153733/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=S68yAAAAIBAJ&pg=4631,44032 |url-status=live }}
History
Jane's Defence Weekly was established in 1984 replacing the now-defunct Jane's Defence Review. The latter was started in 1978 and was published on a monthly basis.{{cite web |title=Aviation Magazines |url=http://www.aircraftinformation.info/magazines_uk_2.htm |work=Aircraft International |access-date=31 January 2016 |archive-date=28 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070528035151/http://www.aircraftinformation.info/magazines_uk_2.htm |url-status=live }} Award winning international journalist Clifford Beal is a former editor of the magazine.{{Cite web |title=Clifford Beal |url=https://www.sheilland.com/clifford-beal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329002132/https://www.sheilland.com/clifford-beal |archive-date=2023-03-29 |access-date=2023-09-11 |website=sheil-land |language=en}}
=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.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XyMjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c84FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4321,5157743 {{dead link|date=May 2019}} 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/03/opinion/abroad-at-home-the-pardons-in-perspective.html |work=The New York Times |first=Anthony |last=Lewis |title=Abroad at Home; The Pardons in Perspective |date=3 March 2001 |access-date=19 February 2017 |archive-date=5 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205104820/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/03/opinion/abroad-at-home-the-pardons-in-perspective.html |url-status=live }}