Jane's Weapons: Air-Launched

Jane's Weapons: Air-Launched provides in-depth data and information on weapons carried by the world's air platforms, supporting military and security intelligence, planning and procurement by delivering comprehensive technical and program information on current and future air defense capabilities, and providing market intelligence to enable A&D businesses to carry out effective marketing, strategy and product development activities.

Jane's Weapons: Air-Launched will help you to:

• Evaluate competitors, potential business partners and acquisition targets
• Conduct air defense industry market research and competitor analysis
• Forecast likely future air force defensive capability requirements
• Accurately model current and emerging airborne threat scenarios
• Discover new market opportunities in the air weapons sector

Jane's Weapons: Air-Launched is currently available in Yearbook format only, but will be available in three formats:

• Online
• Yearbook
• Offline
  • Intraspex (CD-ROM)
  • IHS Jane's Data Services (XML data)

The online format of IHS Jane's Weapons: Air-Launched will provide you with additional benefits not available within the yearbook, including:

• Regular updates
• Powerful search capabilities
• Additional photographs and diagrams
• Inventory data
• Comprehensive archive

Please contact your sales representative for more information about the Online and Offline formats of this product.

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Incorporating profiles of more than 500 airborne weapons under development, in production and in service in more than 140 countries, including bombs, precision guided munitions, air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles, guns, rockets, mines, depth charges and torpedoes, Jane’s Weapons: Air-Launched represents the most comprehensive and reliable guide to the world’s air-launched weapons.

• Technical details and capability descriptions
• Functionality and operational parameters
• Variants, upgrades and planned future enhancements
• Operational status and worldwide user base
• Combat records
• Analysis tables, including weapon types, national inventories and aircraft weapon loads
• Photographs and diagrams
• Suppliers and manufacturers

Robert Hewson
Robert Hewson has been a military journalist and analyst for nearly 20 years, specializing in aerospace and systems technology. He took over the editor's chair at IHS Jane's Weapons: Air-Launched in 2001 (then known as Jane's Air Launched Weapons). Prior to that, he was the editor of the renowned World Air Power Journal, before establishing his own consultancy firm for the aerospace industry. He has worked on a number of open source and restricted projects, on behalf of leading defense concerns and international armed forces.

He is a regular contributor to several other IHS Jane's titles and has also written widely on aviation, defense and industry topics land, sea and air in several languages. Robert has made a wide range of TV and radio appearances, both in the UK and elsewhere. He also has substantial experience of military aviation operations, flying in a wide range of service aircraft from combat helicopters to front line fast jets. In 2007 he became the last civilian to fly in a Swedish Air Force Saab Viggen.

In 2009 Robert received the Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for a Jane's Defence Weekly news analysis piece that queried the costs of Norway's proposed Joint Strike Fighter purchase.