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Future Artillery 2010 and Share the ATK Is a Premier Aerospace and Defense Company with Very Latest Developments and Operational Trends from the Battlefield New Connaught Rooms, London 23rd – 25th March 2009 “This is the best artillery conference in the world.” Jon Schreyach, Lockheed Martin www.future-artillery.com Tel: +44 (0) 207 368 9300 | Fax: +44 (0) 207 368 9301 | Email: [email protected] Dear Colleague, With over 210 attendees from across the world, the 2009 Future Artillery conference was the largest and most successful in its 8 year history. Keeping with tradition, the morning briefings of Day One were provided by the UK, including briefings from the UK MoD’s Equipment Capability Customer (Deep Target Attack) and the Headquarters Director Royal Artillery. These Guest Presentations identified the key future requirements for the Royal Artillery and drew upon Lessons Learned from the ISAF mission. Theatre experience was also the main theme through the Canadian, Danish and Netherlands Guest Presentations, helping the audience to fully understand the challenges currently faced by gunners in the field and focusing attention upon those issues that must be prioritised. Critical amongst these was coordination with the Air component, enabling deconfliction of the airspace and the synchronisation of Fires – surely to be main a discussion topic for the 2010 meeting. Other highlights at the conference were the Guest Presentations from US participants, which included a review of the USMC’s fire support systems, a Keynote Address from the Deputy Commanding General of the US Field Artillery Centre and precision fires updates from US Army’s PEO Ammunition and PEO Missiles and Space. Indeed, the focus upon Precision Fires capabilities was widely welcomed by attendees and is set to be a main thread again next year. Leading defence contractors provided the technical briefings, shedding light on the latest target acquisition sensors and artillery C4I, as well as smart ammunition technologies. For those looking forward to our next meeting, the 2010 Future Artillery conference will be held in London on the 22-24th March 2010. The provisional agenda is designed to provide updates on major artillery modernisation projects, precision and loitering munitions, target acquisition capabilities, artillery C4I, coordination of Joint Fires and Air-Land Integration, and analysis of the most important challenges faced by the Warfighter. I look forward to seeing you there. Yours sincerely, Stephen Dobson Production Director, Defence IQ What did attendees say about the 2009 Future Artillery conference: “... a valuable update on developments which are occurring rapidly.” Lt Col Andrew Garrad, Australian Army “Generally very good. Very good update.” Col (Ret’d) Christopher Coats, UK MoD “It's a very good event for getting an overview of what's going on in the world of fire support.” Niklas Edelsvard, Swedish Armed Forces “It was very valuable as far as seeing where the industry is going and what the different Army experiences from operations are” Viktor Potocnik, Slovenian Armed Forces “Very well coordinated conference. Great contacts. Really enjoyed seeing participation of more diverse countries.” Maj Dwayne Hynes, US Army www.future-artillery.com Tel: +44 (0) 207 368 9300 | Fax: +44 (0) 207 368 9301 | Email: [email protected] ANALYSIS OF KEY PRESENTATIONS FROM FUTURE ARTILLERY 2009 Based on the Presentation by Based on the Presentation by Colonel Claus Dixen Moller, Chief of Staff, Danish Army Fire Colonel Peter Froling, Support Centre: Commander, Fire Support Training Centre, Royal Netherlands Army: DANISH FIRE SUPPORT TO OPERATIONS IN JOINT FIRES HELMAND PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN Danes to Bolster Afghan Firepower* Netherlands Ponders Artillery Imprecision Puzzle* The Royal Danish Army (RDA) is making plans to bolster the organic fire The Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA) is to embark on a renewed round of support capabilities of its 750-strong battlegroup operating alongside UK firing trials with the Krauss-Maffei Wegmann PzH2000 155mm 52-calibre troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. At present it has a troop of five self-propelled howitzer, with a view to improving its accuracy at long range. Leopard 2A5 tanks to provide direct-fire support, and just two 60 mm mortar According to Colonel Peter Froling, RNLA Inspector of Artillery, who spoke at sections, each with three tubes, to provide indirect-fire support. Danish ground the Defence IQ Future Artillery 2009 conference in London in late March, in troops therefore depend heavily on plus artillery (GMLRS/105 mm Light Gun) Afghanistan the PzH2000 has shown itself to be “very accurate” out to 22km, and 81 mm mortar fire support provided by adjacent British units, plus but insufficiently so when engaging targets beyond 32km. In the latter case coalition close air and close combat aviation support (CAS), which has a finite assisted projectiles have to be used, and their miss distances have in some capacity and ineradicable latency. (It is understood that not all Danish fires instances exceeded 1 km. observers have direct access to mensuration software, the lack of which in Further tests are due to be made in July at the Karapinar firing range in Turkey, unplanned situations slows down the process of calling for precision fire such which has sufficient real estate to allow detailed measurement of trajectories as that offered by GMLRS or CAS.) and fall of shot at maximum range. According to Colonel Claus Dixen Møller, chief of staff of the Danish Army Fire The extended-range (30-40 km) firing capability provided to the Royal Support Centre, who spoke at the Defence IQ Future Artillery 2009 conference Netherlands Army is based on the private-venture Rheinmetall Rh40 (DM131) in London in late March, the hope is to dispatch both RDA M109A3 155 mm basebleed round, which is fired in combination with the DM72/DM92 top- self-propelled howitzers and 120 mm armoured mortars to theatre. In the charge module (Zone 6). For its part, the German Army has approved and meantime Danish troops are using “much more 60mm ammunition than fielded the DM72/92, but has not so far adopted the DM131, confining itself planned”, he said, and one objective for the battlegroup will be to enhance its to the unassisted DM121 (Rh30), which gives the PzH2000 a range of 30 km battle damage assessment capabilities in order to ensure available in standard atmosphere ammunition is not wasted. The Rh40 was initially developed for operations in a European environment and The Expal LL M-86 mortars currently in service in conjunction with MAS put into production to fulfil the requirements of the Greek Army. A quantity was Morfire handheld ballistic computers have a maximum range (at sea level) supplied to the RNLA in late 2006 in response to an urgent operational of 4.7 km using Expal’s AE 60 mm mortar bomb family. Smoke rounds are requirement that arose when the PzH2000 was committed to operations in employed not just for screening but also for adjusting fire, because of the Afghanistan. At that time, Colonel Froling, then commander of the RNLA Fire difficulties in spotting the fall of shot of 60 mm HE rounds in poppy fields. Support Training Centre, reported that the Rh40 would enable the PzH2000 to Plans are now in place for the Danish government to gift some fifty 60mm achieve "ranges in excess of 40 km accurately." mortar systems (including appropriate fire control equipment) to the Afghan Army in the coming year as part of a plan to build up indigenous force Industry sources questioned by Janes variously suggested that the contributors capabilities. to the current inaccuracies could include the fire control, ballistics data, the ammunition, the weapon system itself, or the meteorological data used. Colonel Froling noted the extremes of temperature experienced necessitated additional manual inputs to the fire control system. He also voiced the RNLA’s interest in adoption of course-correcting fuzes or GPS-guided ammunition, which could “Excellent overviews combining provide a possible redress for the types of problem encountered in theatre. (His future needs with direct feedback remarks came just as the Excalibur XM982 Block 1a1 GPS-guided projectile is in the throes of being cleared for use with the PzH2000 in anticipation of a potential from current operations.” Australian Army requirement). Glenn Barone, L-3 Space & Navigation * Provided by Rupert Pengelly, James Information Group www.future-artillery.com Tel: +44 (0) 207 368 9300 | Fax: +44 (0) 207 368 9301 | Email: [email protected] Based on the Presentation by Based on the Presentation by Colonel Ole Knudson, Project Manager Combat Ammunition Rod Summers, Deputy Programme Executive Officer Integration, Systems, PEO Ammunition, US Army: PEO Missiles and Space, US Army: US ARTILLERY PRECISION EFFORTS US ARMY PEO MISSILES AND SPACE UPDATE Range and Reliability Improvements for Excalibur* More Legs for NLOS-LS* The improved M982 Block 1a-2 Excalibur GPS-guided 155 mm artillery A range of potential future payloads and munitions for the Netfires Non-Line projectile is now expected to be fielded with the US Army in 2010, a year Of Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS), one of the deliverables from the US later than planned. Army’s Future Combat System (FCS) programme, is being funded under the US Army’s Science and Technology budget. These include a new air-defence Among the issues that have had be addressed as part of the on-going Block vehicle suitable for countering UAVs, and a new propeller-driven remote 1a-2 production qualification process is a reliability shortfall, now resolved by delivery system (NLOS-T), suitable for delivering protection payloads. The replacing the original Honeywell inertial measurement unit with a new gun- latter could include a decontamination payload, lethal/non-lethal payloads (for hardened MEMS (micro-electromechanical)-technology unit produced in the example an anti-radiation missile or an electro-magnetic pulse generator), a UK by Atlantic Inertial Systems (AIS), formerly part of BAE Systems. The AIS situation-awareness payload, or a counterfire payload for defence against SilMU02 MEMS IMU, which weighs ‹210gm, is resistant to 20,000g shock rocket and mortar attack.
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