Jane's Defence Weekly
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Jane's Defence Weekly (abbreviated as JDW) is a weekly magazine
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reporting on military
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and corporate
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affairs, edited by Peter Felstead. It is one of a number of military-related publications named after John F. T. Jane
Fred T. Jane
John Fredrick Thomas Jane was the founding editor of reference books on warships and aircraft . He also once kidnapped Victor Grayson MP in a political stunt....
, an Englishman who first published Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships
Jane's Fighting Ships
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in 1898. It is a unit of Jane's Information Group
Jane's Information Group
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, which is now owned by IHS
IHS Inc.
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