Global Defence Review 1999

`Key companies, key products & key issues for the defence community`
• About GDR • Foreword • Show Listings • ETS News • GDR 1998 • GDR 1997		If January is anything to go by, 1999 looks set to be an exciting year in the defence field. We've seen a major merger between two European giants (BAe and GEC's Marconi), the Clinton administration has announced a big increase in defence spending, US and British military action is continuing against Iraq, and the Kossovo crisis looks likey to go critical very soon. It would take a lot of courage to predict how any of these events will pan out. However this edition of Global Defence Review will provide readers with the essential background to enable them to follow events over throughout the year.

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Land Systems
The US Army's future integrated combat system, combat engineering, demining, military trucks, AFV periscopes and more.
Air Systems
UK airlift capability, engine monitoring, wear-debris analysis, new helicopter propulsion technologies, the Pilatus PC-12 Eagle surveillance aircraft plus a profile of Romania's leading military specialists.
Sea Systems
The market for non-nuclear submarines, the UK's new aircraft carrier project and amphibious assualt ships, handling nuclear submarines at the Devonport dockyard and on board the Dutch Navy's first amphibious transport ship.
Missile Systems
Including the contenders for the UK's beyond visual range air-to-air missile requirement, the US Land Attack Standard Missile, hypersonic technologies and the importance of interoperability in ballistic missile defence operations.
Weapons Systems
Mortars, artillery, armoured vehicles, small arms, special application rifles plus the US Army's revolutionary vision for the infantry combat weapon of the 21st Century.
Surveillance Systems
The contenders for Britain's ASTOR airborne stand-off radar requirement, unmanned aerial vehicles, airborne intelligence systems and more.
Communications Systems
NATO's digitisation programme, the tactical infosphere, satellite systems and electronic inovation.
GEOGRAPHICAL SECTIONS

Europe
Smart procurement, the western European armoured vehicle manufacturing industry, the UK's future naval role and the growing links between European industry and South Africa.
Russia
The state of the defence industry in the former Soviet Union, Kamov helicopters, NIIP radar and SSPC Zvezda-Strela tactical weapons plant.
South America
The naval balance in South America, a profile of Brazilian aerospace giant Embraer and Latin American Defentech '99, the region's only tri-service show.
South-East Asia
China's defence build-up, how Asia's recent economic turmoil has affected defence sales, and the implications of Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests.