Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets

Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets details UAVs, aerial targets and subsystems under development, in production and in use in 50 countries. This resource provides you the necessary information to help identify entry points into a market, compile competitive intelligence, and quickly research country inventories for threat assessments.

Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets can be paired with Jane’s Unmanned Ground Vehicles and Systems or Jane’s Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and Systems to provide you with the ultimate unmanned intelligence package. IHS has you covered with the trusted content you need to make important decisions.

Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets helps you:

• Compare and contrast vehicles and associated equipment
• Conduct market research and monitor competitors
• Inform procurement decisions and locate suppliers
• Discover market opportunities, particularly in telecommunications relay and environmental monitoring niches

Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets is available in three formats:

• Online 
• Yearbook
• Offline data feed

The online format of Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets provides you with many benefits not available with the yearbook, including:

• Continuous online updates 
• Search capabilities 
• Additional photographs and diagrams
• Exhaustive five year archive

Below is an image from the Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets online library of the main features of the CL-89 drone vehicle:

Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets offers unmatched information on UAV equipment, with details on more than 400 UAVs, 120 aerial targets and 240 subsystems.

Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets contents include:

• UAVs
• Aerial targets, including ballistic and towed targets
• Sensor payloads
• Power plants
• Control and communications systems
• Launch and recovery systems
• Manufacturers
• Operator inventory
• Country quick reference guides to UAV and target activity

Below is an image from the Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets online library of the principal features of the MQ-1C Sky Warrior:

Mark Daly
Mark Daly's first experience in aerospace journalism was as a reporter on a company newspaper in 1980. In 1983 he joined Jane's Information Group as a reporter on the newly launched Jane's Defence Weekly and became news editor in 1989. He later transferred to Jane's International Defence Review as editor-in-chief. In 2007 he joined the editorial teams of Jane's Aero-Engines and Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets.

Martin Streetly
Martin Streetly is a full-time defense electronics author and journalist who specializes in the history, technology and application of Electronic Warfare (EW). He is the editor of both the Jane's Radar & Electronic Warfare Systems yearbook and Jane's Electronic Mission Aircraft and contributes to Jane's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Targets. Over the past twenty-four years, Martin Streetly has been a regular contributor to a range of international defense publications that has included the Journal of Electronic Defense (acting as the magazine's European Editor for 12 years up to March 2001), The Knowles Report, Microwave Journal, Jane's Defence Weekly, Flight International, Naval Forces, International Defence Review, Military Simulation & Training and the NAVINT naval intelligence newsletter. Over the last twenty years, he has appeared on the UK's Channel 4 news program, the BBC and the Discovery Channel. During the 1991 Gulf War, he worked with the UK's Independent Television News Ltd and a range of international newspapers (including the New York Times and the Jerusalem Post) and has been invited to lecture on EW technology by industry, NATO, the Government of the United Arab Emirates and the Association of Old Crows.

Over and above his work on the Jane's yearbooks, Martin Streetly has published four books on the history and technology of airborne EW, the details of which are as follows:

Confound & Destroy: 100 Group and The Bomber Support Campaign
Macdonald & Jane's Publishers Ltd, London, 1978 and Jane's Publishing Ltd, London, 1985.

World Electronic Warfare Aircraft
Jane's Publishing Ltd, London, 1983 & 1984.

The Aircraft of 100 Group
Robert Hale Ltd, London, 1984.

Airborne Electronic Warfare: History, Techniques and Tactics
Jane's Publishing Ltd, London, 1988.

Of these, Confound & Destroy is considered by many as being the definitive study of the birth of airborne EW within the UK's Royal Air Force while over 5,000 copies of the two editions of World Electronic Warfare Aircraft have been sold worldwide.