Jane's Defense Weekly

Jane's Defence Weekly

Cover for 18 March 2013 edition.
Editor	Peter Felstead
Features Editor	Kate Tringham
Europe Editor	Nicholas de Larrinaga
Asia Pacific Editor	James Hardy
Middle East/Africa Editor	Jeremy Binnie
Staff writers	Staff writers  Geoff Fein Marina Malenic Jon Grevatt
Categories	Defence
Frequency	Weekly
Publisher	Sean Howe, SVP, IHS Inc
Paid circulation	2,717
Unpaid circulation	24,886
Total circulation (June 2012)	27,603
Year founded	1984
Company	IHS Inc.
Country	England
Based in	Coulsdon, Surrey
Language	English
Website	http://www.janes.com/products
ISSN	0265-3818
OCLC number	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 Jane's Information Group, which was purchased by IHS in 2007. The magazine has a large circulation and is frequently cited in publications worldwide.

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.

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. 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.