Increased Precision, Range and Greater Integration to be Addressed at the World’s Leading Joint Fires Conference

Senior representatives from armies from nations including Brazil, UK, US, Spain and Greece will be speaking at Future Artillery 2015, a two-day conference enabling the artillery community to reflect and explore contemporary thinking on the role of artillery in the joint fires environment.

The conference, hosted by Defence IQ – a division of global events company IQPC – is a unique opportunity for international industry, military and government to discuss the latest in interoperability, precision, communication technology and current and future training initiatives.

This is required to address the growing challenges facing forces as the withdrawal from Afghanistan has been completed and many combat arms are restructuring as a result of this and budget considerations.

"Future Artillery 2015 will address the most pressing issues facing artillerymen and women of today: revealing the developments needed to ensure the on-going utility of indirect fires in the rapidly evolving and shifting battle space of the 21st century." - Christopher Foss, Editor, Jane’s Artillery and Air Defence at IHS (Global), Chairman, Future Artillery 2015

Senior speakers at this forum include:

·       Major General Cunha Mattos, Divisional Artillery Commander of 6th Division, Brazilian Army

·       Major General Menelaos Meimaris, Director of Artillery Directorate/ HAGS, Hellenic Army

·       Brigadier Simon Humphrey, Director, Combat Support, British Army

·       Brigadier General Alfredo Sanz y Calabria, Director, Spanish Artillery School, Spanish Army

·       Brigadier General William A. Turner, Field Artillery Commandant, US Army

·       Brigadier Andrew Harrison DSO MBE, Chief Joint Fires and Influence, HQ AARC, NATO

·       Colonel Jarosław Kraszewski, Chief of Field Artillery, Polish Army

·       Colonel Manfried Dietmar Felber, Head of Section of Joint Fire Support/Indirect Fire, Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Center, German Army

·       Lieutenant Colonel Reink Sijbrandi, Chief S5 (Plans), Fire Support Command, Royal Netherlands Army

·       Lieutenant Colonel Soren Høst, Head of Fire Support Division, Army Combat and Fire Support Centre, Danish Army

Future Artillery 2015 will take place on 23^rd – 25^th March 2015 at the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel and Spa, London, UK. Find the full programme, speaker list and registration form at www.future-artillery.com/news, call +44 (0)20 7368 9737 or email enquire@defenceiq.com.

Current industry partners of the conference project include ATK, Lockheed Martin, Nammo, Nexter, Raytheon, UC Aerospace Systems, Van Halteren Defence and ESG.

For further insight into the major market developments within the artillery community, visit the event resource centre at http://bit.ly/Artillery15Report.

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