Ammunition

IHS Jane's Weapons: Ammunition provides detailed information on armed forces and paramilitary ammunition, delivering key market intelligence to enable A&D businesses to perform successful marketing, strategy and product development activity and supporting military and security organizations by providing detailed technical information on tri-service weapons capabilities.

IHS Jane's Weapons: Ammunition will help you to:

• Evaluate competitors, potential business partners and acquisition targets
• Conduct defense industry market research and competitor analysis
• Forecast likely future offensive and defensive capability requirements
• Accurately model current and emerging threat scenarios
• Discover new market opportunities in the ammunition defense sector
• Manage and direct ammunition procurement programs

IHS Jane's Weapons: Ammunition 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: Ammunition will provide you with additional benefits not available within the yearbook, including:

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

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

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Containing more than 1,800 profiles of ammunition in service with armed forces around the world, including ammunition for small arms, riot control, mortars, naval and coastal defense guns, cannons, tank and anti-tank weapons, IHS Jane's Weapons: Ammunition contains detailed technical information for ammunition across all three services, as well as data tables, photographs and diagrams.

• Technical details, specifications and capability descriptions
• Development and program information
• Commercial details
• Photographs and diagrams
• National inventories
• Identification reference tables
• Suppliers and manufacturers

Leland Ness
Leland Ness worked for Jane's Information Group and DMS from 1979 to 1990 as director of special projects and manager of the Ground and Naval Systems Group. During that time he also created and authored the DMS World Armored Vehicle Forecast and World Ordnance Forecast, which became the industry standard references in their fields.

In 1990 Lee became an independent consultant, and in 1995 he founded the Carlton Group Inc, which publishes the monthly Military Vehicles and Ordnance Report and provides technology and marketing consultancy to industry and government. He also gives several workshops and seminars a year on armored vehicles and ordnance in the US, Europe and Asia under the auspices of various conference organizers.

Lee served for 28 years in US Army reserve components, and his service included a one-year tour of active duty with Headquarters, US Army Intelligence Agency, during Operation Desert Storm. He is the co-author of Red Army Handbook (with Steven Zaloga) and the author ofJane's World War II Tanks and Fighting Vehicles: The Complete Guide. Lee is also co-editor of IHS Jane's Weapons: Infantry.

Anthony G Williams
Anthony G Williams, who joined the IHS Jane's Weapons: Ammunition editorial team in January 2005, is a military technology historian principally interested in guns and ammunition and especially in ammunition for automatic weapons. He is a member of the International Ammunition Association and the European Cartridge Research Association (ECRA) and is the Editor of ECRA's monthly bulletin The Cartridge Researcher.

Tony has authored and co-authored many magazine articles and several books, includingAssault Rifle: The Development of the Modern Military Rifle and its Ammunition and Machine Gun: The Development of the Machine Gun from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day (both with Maxim Popenker), the three-volume series Flying Guns: Development of Aircraft Guns, Ammunition and Installations (with Emmanuel Gustin), and Rapid Fire: The Development of Automatic Cannon, Heavy Machine Guns and their Ammunition for Armies, Navies and Air Forces.