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New Connaught Rooms, London 23rd – 25th March 2009

“This is the best conference in the world.”

Jon Schreyach, Lockheed Martin

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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 of the US Field Artillery Centre and precision fires updates from US ’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, “It was very valuable as far as seeing where the industry is going and what the different Army experiences from operations are” Viktor Potocnik, “Very well coordinated conference. Great contacts. Really enjoyed seeing participation of more diverse countries.” Maj Dwayne Hynes, US Army

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ANALYSIS OF KEY PRESENTATIONS FROM FUTURE ARTILLERY 2009 Based on the Presentation by Based on the Presentation by Claus Dixen Moller, , Danish Army Fire Colonel Peter Froling, Support Centre: Commander, Fire Support Training Centre, : DANISH FIRE SUPPORT TO OPERATIONS IN JOINT FIRES HELMAND PROVINCE,

Danes to Bolster Afghan Firepower* Netherlands Ponders Artillery Imprecision Puzzle* The (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 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 , 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 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 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. levels and since the third quarter of 2008 has been successfully fired in more In the latter connection, it is planned that the NLOS-LS container launch unit than 20 Excalibur test shots, using a range of charges up to and including (CLU) should become a component of the US forces’ next-generation counter MACS (Modular Artillery Charge System) Zone 5. As a result Excalibur prime rocket and mortar (C-RAM) system or IFPC (indirect fire protection contractor Raytheon has placed a production contract with AIS for several capability), which is currently the subject of two study contract awards. There hundred units. are also studies and testing in process with the CLU as a means of delivering vertical-launched Hellfire missiles for close combat (500m-8km), and IAMD The maximum range of the current Block 1a-1 round is around 24 km, and the (integrated air and missile defence) applications. improved round, which incorporates a Swedish-developed base-bleed unit Rod Summers, Deputy Program Executive Officer – Integration within the US and is compatible with a higher (MACS Zone 5) charge, will be capable of Army Program Executive Office, Missiles and Space, told delegates to the achieving the objective maximum range of 40 km when fired from the 39- Defence IQ Future Artillery 2009 conference staged in London in March 2009 calibre tubes fitted to the M109A6 Paladin and M777A2 howitzers. that he still foresaw a role for a loitering munition as part of NLOS-LS, particularly given the US Field Artillery’s recent espousal of an electronic According to Colonel Ole Knudsen, US Army Program Manager for Combat warfare capability as part of its fires delivery and coordination remit. This Ammunition Systems, who spoke at the Defence IQ Future Artillery 2009 renewed interest in loitering munitions comes in the aftermath of a 2004 conference in London in late March, the XM982 Block 1a-1 Excalibur had decision to set aside the original 200 km-range NLOS-LS Loitering Attack been successfully used on operations for the past two years, having been Missile (LAM) on cost and maturity grounds, and to focus instead on the introduced into service with the US Army in in time for the ‘Surge’ in shorter-ranging (40 km) Precision Attack Munition (PAM). 2007. Concurrently it was supplied to Canadian Forces in Afghanistan (but not The latter has a dual-mode guidance head incorporating uncooled imaging used on operations there until 2008, according to a senior Canadian infra-red (UCIIR) and semi-active laser (SAL) seekers. It can be operated in artilleryman). autonomous uncooled IIR, in-flight target update, SAL designate, SAL anoint, Nonetheless, Knudson described Excalibur as a “relatively complicated round SAL offset, and GPS/INS grid-attack modes. To date, five GTV (guided test that has to work in a 15,000G environment.” He told Janes that the reliability vehicle) firings have been carried out using the tactical CLU, variously assessing performance in SAL-designate, SAL-anoint, IIR and top-attack IIR of Block 1a-1 in theatre is currently running at about 85 per cent, compared modes, the last of these having been conducted on 6 March 2009. with the 98 percent that has been achieved with the M31 GMLRS Unitary GPS-guided rocket round. The change to the AIS IMU will contribute to Summers explained that in the cooperative ‘SAL-anoint’ targeting mode, the raising Excalibur Block 1a-2 reliability to a similar level. The plan is that the missile uses its integral JTRS radio to command a ground laser designator momentarily to pick out or ‘anoint’ the target, which the missile then engages same IMU should also be substituted in outstanding production lots of the autonomously using its IIR seeker. Block 1a-1 version. So far, seven CLUs have been delivered to the US Army Experimental Task Meanwhile a shoot-off is due to take place in 2010 between ATK and Raytheon Force (AETF) at Fort Bliss, where they successfully completed the AETF Force designs for the follow-on Excalibur Block 1B, which is intended to yield both Development Test & Evaluation and Technical Field Test. Three engineering cost and reliability benefits in comparison with earlier versions. The AIS IMU is CLUs were delivered to the US Navy’s Naval Surface Warfare Center at understood to have been adopted as part of the Raytheon design solution. Dahlgren, and one to the Central Test Support Facility at Fort Sill for interoperability testing. Also on the stocks is an improved PAM (IPAM) round in which the current dual-mode seeker would be supplemented by a millimetre-wave sensor for all-weather homing. * 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]

WHO ATTENDED FUTURE ARTILLERY 2009? Attendance by Industry

Ammunition Technology 20% Canon Artillery Systems 20% Sensors & Target Acquisition 20% Rocket Artillery Systems 8% Artillery C4I 6% Navigation & Pointing Systems 6% Consultancy Services 5% Mortar Systems 5% Parts 3% System Integration 3% Defence R&D 2% Materials 2% Training Systems 1% Other 1%

Industry Attendees Military Attendees Advanced Material Engineering Pte Ltd Nammo AS Air Warfare Centre, UK MoD Royal Netherlands Army Allegheny Technologies Limited Nexter Systems Armasuisse Royal Armscor Nitrochemie Aschau GmbH Armed Forces of the Sultanate of Oman Singapore Armed Forces ATI Europe Northrop Grumman LITEF GmbH Australian Army Singapore Defence Science and ATK Paramount Group Australian Defence Technology Agency Atlantic Inertial Systems Patria Weapons Systems Oy Austrian MoD Slovenian Armed Forces Aubert & Duval Patria Land & Armament Oy BAE Systems QinetiQ Swedish Armed Forces BAE Systems Bofors AB RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems Ltd Swedish Defence Materiel Administration BAE Systems Rokar RUAG Land Systems Ltd FMV Raytheon Missile Systems Canadian Forces Swedish Defence Research Agency Boeing Defence UK Ltd. Rheinmetall Defence DE&S UK MoD CAE UK Plc. Rheinmetall Denel Danish Army UAE Armed Force GHQ Curtiss-Wright Antriebstechnik GmbH Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH Acquisition and Logistics UK MoD DRS Tactical Systems Ltd. Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH Organisation UKTI Defence & Security Organisation Dedman Giles Associates Rockwell Collins Inc. DSTL US Army Diehl BGT Defence GmbH & Co. KG Roxel Embassy of Israel US Army Industrial Operations Command Dynamic Flowform Corp. Rubincon FFI Norwegian Defence Research (IOC) EADS Deutschland GmbH SAIC Ltd. Establishment US Marine Elbit Systems Ltd. SCS Ltd. Finnish Armed Forces Eurenco SRCTec, Inc. EURO-ART GmbH Saab Aerotech French MoD General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc Saab Group French Navy General Dynamics - OTS Saab Microwave Systems AB German Federal Ministry of Defence General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sagem Défense Sécurité HQ Director Royal Artillery Sistemas Scepter Corporation Israel Gesellschaft für Intelligente Wirksysteme Selex Galileo KADDB GmbH Smiths Detection Kongsberg Defence Systems Hawk UK Soltam Systems Ltd. Korean Agency for Defence Development HVR Consulting Services Ltd. Spyglass Publications Ministry of National Defence, Poland Iconoclast Limited ST Kinetics (Singapore technologies) NLD Fire Support Training Centre JUNGHANS Microtec GmbH Systems Consultants Services Ltd. Netherlands Defence Materiel Jena-Optronik GmbH (JENOPTIK AG) TNO Defence Organisation Kraus Maffei Wegmann Terma AS Norwegian Armed Forces L-3 Fuzing & Ordnance Systems Thales Norwegian Defence Logistics L-3 Space & Navigation Division Thales Optronics Organisation Lockheed Martin Corporation Triumph Aerospace Systems Group Norwegian Defence Research Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control Van Halteren Metaal BV Establishment (FFI) Lockheed Martin UK-INSYS Limited Vectronix AG Norwegian TRADOK Logica Vinghog AS MAS Zengrange Ltd WB Electronics Portuguese Field Artillery School Mandus Group RAF

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WITH THANKS TO OUR 2009 SPONSORS:

INTRODUCING OUR SPONSORS FOR 2010

Lead Sponsor Defence IQ’s 8th annual Future Artillery conference in March 2010 is jointly supported by Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control and Lockheed Martin MS2. Saab is one of the world’s leading high-technology companies with its main operations in defence, aviation, Web: www.lockheedmartin.com | Tel: +1 972-603-1615 (Missiles & Fire Control) space and civil security. Tel: +1 315-427-0967 (MS2) Saab is a leading a provider and integrator of radar systems with a proud 50-year Nexter Group is one of the world’s leading land defence history in radar design and development and over 3,000 systems in service in over systems companies with a variety of products and services 30 countries. The ARTHUR weapon locating radar and the GIRAFFE AMB multi- ranging from system design to operational maintenance. mission radar are no strangers to the artillery community and are known for their flexibility, high tactical and strategic mobility, short emplacement time and unrivalled Artillery systems designed by Nexter are NATO-compliant and cover the whole operational precision in target acquisition. range of indirect fire requirements. This is why CAESAR® and 105 LG1 artillery systems are known for their exceptional performance and flexibility in deployment. CAESAR® Saab were pleased to sponsor the 7th annual Future Artillery conference which we offers fast reaction times and the ability to cover a larger area with fewer guns giving hope you found interesting. As lead sponsors of the next Future Artillery conference operators the initiative, the ability to manoeuvre quickly and minimise risk. in March 2010, we looking forward to welcoming you once again. 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