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Jane's Defense & Aerospace News/Analysis contains the complete text of publications published by Jane's Information Group. Formerly known as DMS Defense Newsletters and encompassing only DMS publications, File 587 now includes publications from Jane's Interavia, and DMS. The publications from the three groups currently in the database are listed giving the corresponding journal code, frequency, and starting date--
Jane's Defense & Aerospace News/Analysis summarizes, highlights, and interprets worldwide events in the defense and aerospace industries. Markets covered include aircraft, missiles, space systems, military vehicles, ordnance, electronics, and warships. Budget areas covered include procurement, research and development, and operation and maintenance.
USE FILE 587to find articles from leading defense journals. USE AT=CONTRACTSand the company name to find contracts awarded to a particular company: S AT=CONTRACTS AND CONTRACTOR(W)LOCKHEED |
Jane's Defense & Aerospace News/Analysis reports weekly on significant news and developments in the three services (Army, Navy, and Air Force), government agencies, and both U.S. and non-U.S. aerospace and defense industries and programs. Individual publications in this database cover the issuance of Requests for Proposals (RFPs), prime and subcontract awards, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) and Letters of Offer, technological breakthroughs, budget activity, new starts, upgrade and retrofit opportunities, support services, mergers and acquisitions, teaming and competitions, and international arms acquisitions.
| Dates Covered: | July 1982 to the present (see individual listings in AB field) |
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| File Size: | 125,551 records as of November 1997 |
| Update Frequency: | Weekly (approximately 300 records per week) |
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| AEROBUS | Aerospace and Defense Industry |
| DEFBUS | Defense and Aerospace Industry |
| DEFTECH | Defense Technology |
| GOVTPROC | Business Opportunities, Procurement, and Contracts |
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| /TI | Critical time for UK naval industry |
| JN=, JC=, PD=, PY | JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY (JDW) SEPTEMBER 12, 1987 p. 521 v.008 |
| no. 010 | |
| By: Desmond Wettern | |
| /TX | THE UK naval equipment industry is at a crossroads. The possibility |
| of substantial overseas orders could mean a bright, long-term future | |
| for many companies, while other companies may have to cut back, due | |
| to dwindling domestic orders. | |
| The year began well with Pakistan expressing keen interest in buying | |
| two Yarrow Shipbuilders' Type 23 frigates and the possibility of | |
| building a third in Karachi. | |
| The UK Defence Sales organisation, in an effort to match | |
| Pakistan's request for early delivery, offers HMS Argyll, second of | |
| the Type 23s ordered by the Royal Navy. off-the-shelf. | |
| However, Adm T K Khan, Chief of Pakistan's Naval Staff, who had | |
| convinced his government of the urgent need of a frigate replacement | |
| programme, retired, and his successor appears to be faced with | |
| problems into which the frigate programme has now slithered. | |
| Recent reports from Indian sources that the frigate programme will | |
| soon get under way appear to be only a political ploy to ensure | |
| there are no reductions in India's own naval programme. | |
| In India itself, there are plans to establish a frigate building | |
| complex at Garden Reach, Calcutta, and a leading Scottish civil | |
| engineering contractor has been invited to tender for the works | |
| programme. | |
| There are also suggestions that India may seek to build Type 22 | |
| frigates under licence from the UK. | |
| Prospects for the sale of up to 10 diesel-electric submarines to | |
| Saudi Arabia earlier in the year looked promising for Vickers | |
| Shipbuilding and Engineering (VSEL). | |
| The deteriorating situation in the Gulf intervened and King Fahd, | |
| with whom the final decision now rests, has more urgent matters on | |
| his mind. | |
| Canada is also considering building up to 10 nuclear powered attack | |
| submarines. Initially it was assumed the choice of design, | |
| technolgoy and technical assistance would be a straightforward | |
| competition between France and the UK, but it is now understood that | |
| Canada is also looking at US designs, despite its irritation at what | |
| it saw to be infringements of its Artic territorial waters by US | |
| warships and cost guard vessels. | |
| Canada has, however, turned to the UK for helicopters for its new | |
| 'Halifax' class destroyers with a letter of intent to EH Industries | |
| for the proposed purchase of 25 EH 101s. | |
| A number of UK companies have also supplied equipment, or have been | |
| approached to assist with the 'Tribal' class frigate update and | |
| modernisation programme. | |
| Canada and The Netherlands have expressed interest in the 'River' | |
| class design of ocean minesweepers, which may be sharpened by the | |
| current situation in the Gulf. | |
| The Vosper Thornycroft updated Leander class frigate and the Type 23 | |
| are among 11 contenders for the eight-ship Australian Light Frigate | |
| Programme. | |
| As with the Australian submarine programme, where the UK bid was 50% | |
| higher than that of its nearest rival, production will be in | |
| Australian shipyards. As much equipment as possible will be | |
| produced by domestic industry, usually in partnership with, or under | |
| licence from, overseas competition. | |
| The Leander is also a prime contender for the Greek frigate | |
| competition. | |
| There must be considerable reservations by foreign navies on | |
| proposals for a modernised export version of the Oberon submarine | |
| design. | |
| Most navies are unlikely to view favourably a desing originating in | |
| the 1950s. | |
| However, countries considering underwater capability for the first | |
| time may favour refurbished, secondhand boats, such as the former | |
| RN Oberon and Walrus, which the Seaforth Group is offering for sale. | |
| With the reduction of national defence markets to a level where | |
| single-customer production runs are becoming increasingly | |
| uneconomic, several Controllers of Navy have recently said that | |
| collaborative ventures which cross national boundaries are of | |
| growing importance, just as in the aerospace industry. | |
| In this area, the agreement between OTO Melara and VSEL to make a | |
| year-long study for a future medium calibre naval gun, and that | |
| between OTO Melara and British Areospace for course-corrected shells | |
| for the former's 76 mm gun, may point the way towards greater co- | |
| operation in the development of new weapons. | |
| It may also be a sign of the times that the NATO Frigate | |
| Replacement Programme, NFR 90, still reamins valid despite threats | |
| of withdrawal by some of the eight participating nations. | |
| However, continuing UK Government delays in ship procurement for the | |
| Royal Navy will directly affect overseas orders. | |
| A shrinking Royal Navy, and consequently the industrial base that | |
| supports it, will not breed confidence in the UK's ability to keep | |
| in front of naval technology. | |
| Competition, upon which the government puts such store, is in danger | |
| of becoming meaningless, since, lacking any firm indications of | |
| long-term procurement policies, industry cannot make any plans for | |
| investment in manpower and capital resources. This, in turn, must | |
| increasingly affect the ability of many companies to compete in | |
| foreign markets. | |
| SPECIAL FEATURE: | |
| SF=, /CP | Photograph: Despite being designed specifically for the Royal |
| Navy, there is export potential in the Type 22 |
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