WARSHIPS International Fleet Review HPC Publishing
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WARSHIPS International Fleet Review Editor Iain Ballantyne’s journalistic expeditions have taken him from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea and from the Gulf and Arabian Sea to the South China Sea.
He has reported on naval activities from around the globe, covering the 1990/91
Gulf War, plus enforcement of the UN trade embargo against former-Yugoslavia
and sanctions on Saddam’s Iraq, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
final days of the RN presence in Hong Kong, as well as the opening hours of the
Coalition naval campaign against terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. In
fact, during 16 years of covering naval activities, Iain has spent time at sea
in carriers, LPDs, nuclear-powered submarines, frigates, destroyers, survey ships,
RFAs and mine-hunters.
Iain’s reporting on the front line activities of the Royal Navy from the Gulf to the Arctic Circle, has given him an unrivalled insight into not only how the modern British fleet’s people work and live but also how they operate their ships. Iain has also been to sea in warships of the US Navy, Royal Netherlands Navy, Russian Navy and Italian Navy, both overseas and in home waters. Between June 1990 and September 1994 Iain was Defence Reporter and Chief Reporter of the Evening Herald, Plymouth, before taking up a post in London as Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent for a national news agency.
SINCE going freelance in 1996, Iain has written on naval and military affairs for Air Pictorial, FOCUS magazine, Maxim, The Naval Architect and Legion Magazine. Latterly Iain has moved into editing but continues to contribute to national and regional newspapers. In the period 1999/2001 Iain was the re-launch editor and co-designer of The Maritime Volunteer, a quarterly journal for London-based Maritime Volunteer Service charity. Meanwhile, he had been appointed Editor of WARSHIPS IFR in late 1997, after working up the magazine concept at the invitation of HPC Publishing. Since then WARSHIPS IFR has evolved into the world’s leading and, at this moment in time, only news-driven high street global naval affairs monthly magazine. Consumed avidly in front line warships, from the strike carriers of the US Navy in the Gulf to the frigates and destroyers of the Royal Navy on deployment in the Caribbean and South Atlantic, WARSHIPS IFR is also highly rated by key decision makers within the senior levels of the Defence community.
Most recently, Iain has interviewed the head of the Royal Navy, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, plus the British Commander-in-Chief Fleet, Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent, Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command, Vice Admiral Adrian Johns, and Major General Jim Dutton, a recent Commandant General Royal Marines. The magazine also recently interviewed the head of the Pakistani Navy and the Canadian commodore currently in command of a key NATO standing naval force.
Major naval events that the magazine has covered in-depth, winning high praise
for its analysis, include: the loss of the Russian submarine Kursk; the attack
on the USS Cole; the Iraq War of 2003 and, most recently, the war in the Lebanon
and evacuation of civilians from the fighting.
The magazine’s special edition on the Trafalgar 200 International Fleet
Review was regarded by many as the definitive account of that event.
AS well as news analysis, WARSHIPS IFR also devotes space to naval heritage and recently hit both newspaper headlines, and provided a talking point for radio shows, with its ‘Great Naval Heritage Debate’.
As part of his duties for WARSHIPS IFR, Iain Ballantyne has been the co-author
and editor of HPC Publishing's ‘SUBMARINE 1901 - 2001’, ‘GUIDE
TO THE ROYAL NAVY 2003’, ‘GUIDE TO THE ROYAL NAVY 2004’, ‘GUIDE
TO THE ROYAL NAVY 2006’, plus a two part ‘GUIDE TO THE US NAVY
2005’. The magazine regularly features special supplements, including
a photo-chronicle of British warships 1805 – 2005 and literary supplements
providing incisive reviews of naval books.
With contributors based around the world, WARSHIPS IFR is a true international magazine, and is on shop shelves across the globe, each month providing people in the navies of the world, defence industry, naval enthusiasts and those with an interest in world affairs, with an unrivalled fix of maritime news and stunning photography.
WARSHIPS International Fleet Review is published 12 times a year by HPC Publishing , Drury Lane, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN38 9BJ, UK
Tel: 01424 720477 Fax: 01424 443693
email: editor@warshipsifr.com
Editor: Iain Ballantyne.
Assistant Editor: Dennis Andrews.
Associate Editor: Peter Hore.
Design: Iain Ballantyne with HPC Publishing.
Editor-at-Large: Jonathan Eastland.
Chief Analyst: Usman Ansari.
Maritime Aviation:
Dave Billinge.
Correspondents: Guy Toremans; Michael R.Scherr; Ralph Edwards; Rupert Butler; Joyce Rackham; Patrick Boniface; Charles Strathdee; Steve Cox; Keith Jacobs; Dave Cullen; Mark Simmons; Neill Rush; Yoshiharu Fukushima; Dr Jeremy Stocker; Mike Barlow; David Axe; Nick Newns; Sharkey Ward; Kevin Wells; Juan Carlos Cicalesi; Santiago Rivas.
Contributing Photographers: Nigel Andrews; Mike Welsford;
H.M. Steele; Jonathan Eastland; Gary Davies; Ralph Edwards;
Dave Cullen; Derek Fox; Dave Billinge; Mick Prendergast; Ben Sullivan; Nick
Newns; Neill Rush; Sandra Rowse; Ian Edwards; Trevor Coppock; Kevin Wills;
Juan Carlos Cicalesi; Santiago Rivas.
Publisher: Derek Knoll.
Production/Administration: Christine Knoll.
ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES: Mike Parris.
Tel: +44 (0)1424 720477. Fax: +44 (0)1424 443693
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above).
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