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MENAUL 5/2/1-101 Papers relating to defence, sea weapons and sea warfare, 1962-1984

MENAUL: 5/2/1 1982 Sep 3

Promotional material for 'Seaknife', a fast attack boat.presented by Ron Cain to a conference on the Falklands

MENAUL: 5/2/2 1979 Dec 3

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'British Stingray torpedo tested'.

MENAUL: 5/2/3 1984 Feb

Undercurrent Newsheet (of Marconi Underwater Systems), No 4: 'Sting Ray into service'.

MENAUL: 5/2/4 1983 Nov 15

Signaal (sic) UK Ltd press release: 'Goalkeeper - the weapon system that could keep the Royal Navy out in front', a CIWS, Close-In Weapons System.

MENAUL: 5/2/5 1984 Jan 20

Signaal UK Ltd press release: 'New anti missile system for the Royal Navy'.

MENAUL: 5/2/6 [1978-1979]

Paper: 'Anti-submarine warfare systems present and future'.

MENAUL: 5/2/7 1984 Nov 26

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'French government defines nuclear aircraft carrier' and 'French display militarized Falcon 50, Ecurevil 2 for maritime missions'.

MENAUL: 5/2/8 [1985]

Newspaper article: 'France to build nuclear aircraft carrier'.

MENAUL: 5/2/9 [1972]

Magazine article: 'Defence at sea: the arrival of the Soviet aircraft carrier'.

MENAUL: 5/2/10 1981 Feb 16

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Soviet cruiser Kirov photographed at sea'.

MENAUL: 5/2/11 1981 Feb

Defense: 'Soviet missile cruisers. Part V - the Kiev class (part I)' by John Jordan.

MENAUL: 5/2/12 [1980-1981]

Newspaper photograph: Kirov battlecruiser.

MENAUL: 5/2/13 [1980-1981]

Newspaper photograph: Kirov battlecruiser, aerial view.

MENAUL: 5/2/14 1980 Oct 20

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Soviet nuclear-powered surface warship cruises Baltic'.

MENAUL: 5/2/15 1979 Jul 23

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Carrier Minsk joins fleet at Vladivostok'.

MENAUL: 5/2/16 1979 Jan 22

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Kiev carries new Forger' relating to Forger vertical take off and land aircraft.

MENAUL: 5/2/17 1978 Jan 9

Aviation Week and Space Technology, photographs: 'Kiev operates in Atlantic, Mediterranean'.

MENAUL: 5/2/18 [1981]

Aviation Week and Space Technology? photographs: 'Soviet Kiev carrier renumbered'.

MENAUL: 5/2/19 1984 Apr 16

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Manufacturer plans Harpoon upgrades' relating to 'Harpoon' air and sea launched missile.

MENAUL: 5/2/20 1984 Apr 23

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Britain selects Harpoon missile to arm Navy surface warships' and photograph: 'Sea Harrier makes Ski-jump takeoff carrying missiles'.

MENAUL: 5/2/21 1978 Mar 27

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Harpoon warranty proposed to Navy' relating to 'Harpoon' air and sea launched missile.

MENAUL: 5/2/22 1983 Aug 23

Hughes Aircraft Company press release: 'Hughes to study sea AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile) role for Navy ships'.

MENAUL: 5/2/23 1982 Apr 23

Hughes Aircraft Company press release: 'First ADCAP (Advanced Capability) torpedo test run successful'.

MENAUL: 5/2/24 1976 Nov 1

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Satellites, precision-guided arms foreseen keys to Navy's future'.

MENAUL: 5/2/25 [1977]

[Aviation Week and Space Technology]: 'Surface Effect Ship (SES) designs evaluated'.

MENAUL: 5/2/26 [1970-1976]

Royal United Services Institute Journal: 'Future concepts in military submarine systems' by Brian Thomas.

MENAUL: 5/2/27 [1975-1980]

British Hovercraft Corporation photograph: an Imperial Iranian Navy hovercraft.

MENAUL: 5/2/28 1972 May 14

The Times: part of untitled article on naval mines and US mines around North Vietnam ports.

MENAUL: 5/2/29 [1976-1986]

Vectors: 'The point of point defense' relating to radar detection of sea skimming missiles.

MENAUL: 5/2/30 1982 Jun 7

Aviation Week and Space Technology, Washington Roundup section: 'Soviet sea laser'.

MENAUL: 5/2/31 1982 May 31

Aviation Week and Space Technology, Industry Observer section: article on US Navy's Mid-InfraRed Advanced Chemical Laser.

MENAUL: 5/2/32 1977 Oct

Reader's Digest: 'American's ton-up Navy rides the waves' by John Hubbell relating to the Surface Effect Ship.

MENAUL: 5/2/33 1977 Sep 5

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Navy restudies carrier options' and, photograph: 'Soviet armed helicopters undergo manoeuvres in Ukraine'.

MENAUL: 5/2/34 1977 Jul

Air Pictorial: 'US Navy attack carriers and their aircraft' by Haydn Hirst and 'Trip round the "harbour"' relating to Lynx helicopter.

MENAUL: 5/2/35 1977 Jan 24

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'USSR submarines pose heavy threat' relating to US sixth fleet modernisation and review of Soviet submarines, aircraft carriers and missiles.

MENAUL: 5/2/36 1984 Apr 30

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Navy improving antisubmarine weapons'.

MENAUL: 5/2/37 1981 Jan 26

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Soviets testing battle cruiser in Baltic Sea'.

MENAUL: 5/2/38 1980 Jan

Defence: 'Sonars in the tropics' by B K Billen and G E Somerset.

MENAUL: 5/2/39 1980 Nov

Defence: 'Submarine developments'.

MENAUL: 5/2/40 [1981-1983]

Paper [by Menaul]: 'Are aircraft carriers obsolete in modern war?'.

MENAUL: 5/2/41 1976 Spring

Adelphi Paper No 122: 'Power at sea. I: the new environment' includes papers by Hedley Bull, Robert E Osgood, Erik Moberg, Hubert Feigl, George R Livsey.

MENAUL: 5/2/42 1976 Spring

Adelphi Paper No 123: 'Power at sea. II: super-powers and navies' includes papers by Johan Jorgen Holst, Michael McGwire, Adm Stansfield Turner USN, R Adm J H F Eberle RN.

MENAUL: 5/2/43 1976 Spring

Adelphi Paper No 124: 'Power at sea. III: competition and conflict' includes papers by Michael Howard, John P Craven, Maj-Gen Tÿnne Huitfeldt, Dr Shahram Chubin, Adm Kazutomi Uckida.

MENAUL: 5/2/44 1979 Jan 1

Aviation Week and Space Technology, Washington Roundup section: 'Carrier boost' and 'Taiwan pressure'.

MENAUL: 5/2/45 1978 Dec 11

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Ram to offer antiship missile defence' relating to RAM missile.

MENAUL: 5/2/46 1977 Jan 7

The Times: 'Royal Navy, a special report', including, 'Thin blue line contracts but is still flexible'; 'Ruling beneath the waves'; 'More to be done at home'; 'In which she serves'; 'Swing-winging into a new era'; 'Quality if not quantity' and 'Marines lose their place in the sun'.

MENAUL: 5/2/47 1978 Dec 11

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'British updating antisubmarine force'; 'British study Sea Harrier operation limits, changes' and 'British Navy faces helicopter pilot shortage'. 2 copies

MENAUL: 5/2/48 1978 Aug 7

Aviation Week and Space Technology, Industry Observer section: on British carrier ski Ramp for HMS Hermes.

MENAUL: 5/2/49 1976 May 4

Lecture by Adm Stansfield Turner, USN, at King's College London: 'A special university lecture in war studies: Navies for yesterday or tomorrow'.

MENAUL: 5/2/50 1976 Jun 28

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'British Navy conducts ASW exercise' relating to Anti Submarine Warfare.

MENAUL: 5/2/51 [1976-1980]

The IHE Defence Attache: 'NATO mine-countermeasures' by Desmond Wettern.

MENAUL: 5/2/52 1975 Jan

Paper by Navy department (UK): 'The role of the Royal Navy in a changing world'.

MENAUL: 5/2/53 1974 Feb 18

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'CL-84 sea control ship tests sought' relating to CL-84 tilt wing vertical take off and landing aircraft.

MENAUL: 5/2/54 1973

International Defense Review: 'The patrol hydrofoil missile (PHM): NATO's advanced warship project' by R Adm Rolf Boche (Rtd).

MENAUL: 5/2/55 1972 Jan 8

The Economist: 'The unending war' relating to sea power.

MENAUL: 5/2/56 1972 Aug 29

Newspaper cutting: 'Britain's security. II. Who shall rule the waves...?' by Brig W F K Thompson.

MENAUL: 5/2/57 1970 Aug 22

Illustrated London News: 'You can't judge a navy by counting hulls', by Adm Sir Peter Hill-Norton COS, and diagram of Leander class frigate.

MENAUL: 5/2/58 1973 Dec 5

British Aircraft Corporation press release: 'Important successes for Seawolf/GWS 25 missile system: Britain has a world lead in vital area of naval defence'.

MENAUL: 5/2/59 1971 Mar

Defence: 'Maritime reconnaissance' by John Marriott.

MENAUL: 5/2/60 1973 Mar 3

The Economist: 'Sea power: a survey of the Royal Navy'.

MENAUL: 5/2/61 [1964-1965]

Pamphlet by Fleet Air Arm Officers' Association: Aircraft carriers.

MENAUL: 5/2/62 [1973]

Draft paper [by Menaul]: 'Trends in maritime development'.

MENAUL: 5/2/63 [1972]

Notes: Adm Gorshkov and development of the modern Soviet Navy, ms relating to views of C-in-C Soviet navy.

MENAUL: 5/2/64 [1970-1972]

Note on maritime surveillance. Manuscript.

MENAUL: 5/2/65 1980 Jan

Paper: 'How the Soviets are likely to operate their submarines'.

MENAUL: 5/2/66 1975

Capt John E Moore, RN: The Soviet navy today (Macdonald and Jane's, London): page proofs.

MENAUL: 5/2/67 1971

Brookings Institution, Studies in Defense Policy paper: Naval force levels and modernization: an analysis of shipbuilding requirements by Arnold M Kuzmack.

MENAUL: 5/2/68 1973

Brookings Institution, Studies in Defense policy paper: 'The changing Soviet navy' by Barry M Blechman.

MENAUL: 5/2/69 1969 Jun

Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Special report series No 10: Soviet sea power.

MENAUL: 5/2/70 1973

Cdr Nicholas E Whitestone: The submarine: the ultimate weapon (Davis-Poynter, London). Uncorrected proof.

MENAUL: 5/2/71 1971 Jul

Paper: 'Towards a European Navy: the problems and opportunities in integrating European navies in a European security system' by Lt Cdr R K Dible, Defence Fellow, Dept of War Studies, King's College London 1970-1971.

MENAUL: 5/2/72 1976 Jan 19

British Aircraft Corporation to Menaul. Promotional picture postcard: 'Seawolf has proved its unique anti-missile defence capabilities', four photographs of Seawolf intercepting a missile target.

MENAUL: 5/2/73 1982 Aug 31

Daily Telegraph: 'Next generation of warships in sea of problems' and 'Attack on Invincible relived'.

MENAUL: 5/2/74 1982 Aug 23

Aviation Week and Space Technology, letter to editor: 'Aluminium debate' relating to construction of HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry.

MENAUL: 5/2/75 1982 Jun 24

Daily Telegraph: 'New "thinking" missiles better than Exocet'.

MENAUL: 5/2/76 1982 Jul 11

Sunday Times: 'Super Daleks! Navy pays £32m to save warships from the Exocet' relating to Vulcan-Phalenx gun systems for aircraft carrier Illustrious.

MENAUL: 5/2/77 [1984 Mar]

The Times: letter to editor: 'No future for convoys' from Hugh Hanning, Director of Studies, British Atlantic Committee. (See also 5/2/78,79)

MENAUL: 5/2/78 1984 Mar 22

The Times: letter to editor by Menaul on surface ship vulnerability, with typescript copy. (See also 5/2/77,79)

MENAUL: 5/2/79 [1984 Apr 17]

The Times, letter to editor: 'Surface ships at war' from Adm Lord Hill-Norton. (See also 5/2/77,78)

MENAUL: 5/2/80 1979 Dec

Defence: 'Weapon systems of the US Navy, part II: ASW' relating to Anti Submarine Warfare; by Norman Friedman, Hudson Institute.

MENAUL: 5/2/81 1983 Jul 21

Paper by Adm Sir Anthony Griffin presented to the third annual World Balance of Power conference, Leeds Castle, Kent: 'The global role of the Soviet Navy: challenge and response'.

MENAUL: 5/2/82 1980 Jun

Defence: 'Soviet ASW (Anti Submarine Warfare) - ahead or behind' by Joseph L Adelman, Capt United States Navy.

MENAUL: 5/2/83 1982 Jan/Feb

Survival: 'Sea power and the Soviet submarine forces' by Prof Ian Bellany.

MENAUL: 5/2/84 1980 Mar

Defence: 'Ivan Rogov: the new Soviet LPD, Part one' relating to a Soviet ship with landing capability and helicopter pad.

MENAUL: 5/2/85 [1979-1984]

Typed sheet, numbered '20': Discusses defence funding and Britain's maritime forces.

MENAUL: 5/2/86 1975 Mar 20

Daily Telegraph: 'Britons at sea: why NATO still needs our navy' by Desmond Wettern.

MENAUL: 5/2/87 [1969-1970]

Magazine article: 'Soviet naval capabilities and intentions' by M McGwire.

MENAUL: 5/2/88 1970 Jul 28

The Guardian: 'Russia's sea challenge' by D Fairhall.

MENAUL: 5/2/89 1972 Oct

North Atlantic Assembly Military Committee: 'Draft report on the Soviet maritime threat presented by Mr Patrick Wall (United Kingdom), rapporteur, with appendices A to K' and 'Draft recommendation', also 'The Soviet maritime threat'.

MENAUL: 5/2/90 [1971-1972]

Survival: 'The changing mission of the Soviet Navy' by R G Weinland, reprint from Centre for Naval Analyses.

MENAUL: 5/2/91 [1962-1970]

Lecture synopsis: 'The background to Soviet naval policy' by Cdr M McGwire.

MENAUL: 5/2/92 [1972]

Magazine article: 'The silent submarine threat' by Vice Adm F G Bennett reprinted from NATO's Fifteen Nations Feb 1972.

MENAUL: 5/2/93 1969 Oct 8

Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies lecture by Adm Sir John Frewen: 'Implications of the development of Soviet maritime power, particularly in the Mediterranean' galley proofs.

MENAUL: 5/2/94 [1974-1975]

Paper by John Simpson and Frank Gregory: 'The evolution of British naval equipment, 1945-70'.

MENAUL: 5/2/95 1974 Oct 31

Radio Times: 'Navies manoeuvring'.

MENAUL: 5/2/96 [1972-1980]

Paper by John Erickson: 'The role and capabilities of the Soviet Navy'.

MENAUL: 5/2/97 [1973]

Paper: 'Trends in maritime development'.

MENAUL: 5/2/98 [1972-1980]

List: naval forces for USSR, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and the UK.

MENAUL: 5/2/99 1981

Foreign Affairs Research Institute paper by D Wettern: 'The global significance of the rise of Soviet sea power'.

MENAUL: 5/2/100 1975

Hughes Aircraft Company press release photographs: 'Ship defence', US destroyer Escort Downes fitted with the improved point defence/ target acquisition system (IPD/TAS). (See also 5/2/101)

MENAUL: 5/2/101 1975

Hughes Aircraft Company press release photograph: US destroyer Escort Downes, close-up view of equipment on the mast. (See also 5/2/100)

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