High Mobility, Enhanced Lethality: Maintaining Rapid Tactical Advantage
Future Mortar Systems is the world's longest running conference devoted to the study of mortar technology, tactics, techniques and procedures.
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This year's event is all about empowering the dispersed combat unit for tomorrow's fight. As our enemies become more technologically proficient and able to degrade or deny us our freedom of manoeuvre, small, highly dispersed tactical forces will become a valuable means of projecting combat power and gaining that access to denied territory. This concept of future land warfare has significant implications for the development, acquisition and employment of mortar systems and the TTPs of small combat units, which will need to be empowered with capabilities that enhance their survivability, mobility and lethality in more hostile and ambiguous warfighting contexts. It is with this in mind that we are hosting this year's Future Mortars conference, which will address the investment needed to sustain, modernise or innovate tactical weapon systems to maintain tactical dominance.
The 2018 Agenda in Brief:
- Lethality in Denied Environments: Improving targeting and engagement capabilities for the tactical force
- Range & Precision: Building the lethality and tactical dominance of the dismounted soldier
- Affordability and Programme Delivery: Lifecycle management of mortar systems and munitions
- Mortars in the Megacity: Indirect Fires in Future Terrains
- Irregular Ops: Amphibious Fires & Lightweight Mortars in Special Operations
- Gaps & Investment: Perspectives from R&D and industry on precision munitions, digitized fire control and advanced lethality systems
"Extremely valuable event"
Delegate 2017
"Excellent perspectives and knowledge sharing,"
Delegate 2017
"This event was very good to see the current state of mortars"
Engineer, US Army, Delegate 2015
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Meet the Speakers
Chairperson
- Colonel Steve Fisher (Ret), MEF Liaison Officer, U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory
2018 Speaker Faculty
- Lieutenant Colonel Igor Gojmerec, Indirect Fires, Croatian Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Fernando Cano Artero, Battalion Infantry Commander, Spanish Army
- Lieutenant Colonel George Cornea, 206th Artillery BN /2nd Mountain BDE, Romanian Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Kurt Cyr, Deputy Commander, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, U.S. Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Pat Farrell, Product Manager, Guided Precision Munitions and Mortar Systems, PM CAS, U.S. Army
- Major Mike Johnsson, Head of Mortars/Fire Support Division, Royal Danish Army
- Major Cristiano Refi, 4th Ranger Regiment, Italian Army
- Captain Lars Lehmann, Head of Project, New Mortar System Military Branch, Swiss Armed Forces
- Lieutenant Peter Ghys, Mortar Section, Belgian Armed Forces
- First Lieutenant David Horak, Special Forces Support Center, Czech Special Forces
- Warrant Officer 2 Mark Burnett, Specialst Weapons School, British Army
- CDT Tom Hey, 3D Advisor, Belgian Special Forces
- Scott Kinner, Concept and Doctrine Developer, Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, U.S. Marine Air-Ground Task Force
- Patricia Alameda, Mortars and Common Fire Control Systems Division, RDECOM-ARDEC
- Martin Sufajzl, Project Manager, Artillery & Mortars, Armaments & Acquisition Division, Czech Ministry of Defence
- Michael Markowitch, Program Manager, 81mm Non-Lethal IDFM, U.S. Army
Industry Partner Speakers
- Major General (Ret) Mark McDonald, Senior Advisor, AM General
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