20 - 22 May, 2025
| Novotel London West, UK
Conference Day Three: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
7:30 am - 7:45 am
EXCLUSIVE BREAKFAST BRIEFING (BY INVITATION ONLY)
7:45 am - 8:15 am
MORNING COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
8:15 am - 8:30 am
CHAIRMAN’S OPENING REMARKS
8:30 am - 9:00 am
INTEGRATING FIRES WITHIN THE JOINT COMPONENT
- Overview of current activities to improve interoperability with Allies
- Italian Army’s training and simulation
- Knowledge and capabilities for joint fires operations in a multi-domain context via the Joint fire exercise –computer assisted exercise - JFX CAX Medusa
- Distributed exercises in the national and NATO context. Networking with the joint force
9:00 am - 9:20 am
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS FROM NAMMO
Sponsored by: Nammo
9:20 am - 9:50 am
ADAPTING THE GERMAN ARMY’S JOINT FIRE CAPABILITY TO THE CHANGING SECURITY CONTEXT
- Characterizing German Army warfighting concepts for today’s multi-domain environment
- Equipping the future force: requirements informed by threat
- Air-land integration challenges for the joint fires force
9:50 am - 10:20 am
DEEP FIRES 2.0 - MISSILE ARTILLERY REVIVAL
- Challenges for long range artillery
- Rockets vs. missiles or rockets and missiles
- Why missiles could be a solution against the existing enemy systems
10:20 am - 11:00 am
MORNING COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK
11:00 am - 11:30 am
OPERATIONAL TO TACTICAL - HOW DOES AN NRF /NRDC TRANSLATE IMPLICIT GUIDANCE TO EXPLICIT EXECUTION?
- No appropriate organization to deliver joint fires exists for 1GNC
- Targeting process cannot destabilize operations order writing and current operations
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
GUIDED MUNITION – QUO VADIS AND WAY FORWARD
- Product status on guided munition – Vulcano 127mm and 155mm
- Automated single point land target engagement based on terminal homing with infrared seeker
- Precision Enhancement of conventional artillery munition
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
FUTURE MODERNISATION PLANS OF REPUBLIC OF KOREA ARMY’S ARTILLERY
- An overview of RoK’s large arsenal of self-propelled, field, and rocket artillery, including 105mm and 155mm towed howitzers, 105mm and 155mm self-propelled howitzers, 81mm and 107mm self-propelled mortars, and several multiple launch rocket systems
- Examining current capability and future modernisation plans
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
INDUSTRY SESSION
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
U.S. ARMY IMPROVEMENTS FOR CANNON ARTILLERY
- Extended Range Munitions
- Precision Munitions
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
BUILDING FIRES READINESS IN EUROPE
- Geostrategic priorities for building readiness in Eastern Europe
- Enhancing Fires interoperability between Allies and partners
- Working towards achieving overmatch in any potential conflict
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
SWISS ARTILLERY: CHALLENGES AND DEVELOPMENT
- Evolution of the Swiss artillery: from a post-cold war world until today
- Horizon 2030: a new doctrine and new requirements for the Swiss artillery
- Redeveloping the Swiss artillery capabilities: mortar and new artillery projects
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
AFTERNOON COFFEE AND NETWORKING BREAK
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATIONS’ PANEL DISCUSSION: WHAT’S NEXT, AFTER DEEP AND JOINED FIRES? A TECHNOLOGY PERSPECTIVE ON FUTURE ARTILLERY
This panel discussion will welcome leading defence Research Technology Organisations (RTOs) to share their thoughts on the future artillery & battlefield, its transformation by top down requirements and bottom up technology enablers. The panel will also provide a great opportunity for the audience engage in the discussion and wrap up the conference.
- Back to the Future, a new cold war or high-intensity conflict potential. What’s different this time for artillery?
- Guided and rocket assisted projectiles, rocket artillery and loitering ammunition. Blurred lines or sustaining differentiation?
- The reconnaissance & range threat. Avoid or escape counter battery fire?
- Electronic and navigation warfare. Dependence on satellite navigation for precision strike remaining?
- The triangle of RTO’s, defence industry and militaries. New alliances necessary?
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