RUSI Defence Systems
RUSI Defence Systems is produced three times a year and examines strategic, conceptual and acquisition issues faced by the global defence community. It is read in over a hundred countries and regularly features contributions from prominent and distinguished defence chiefs, scientists and industrialists from across the globe.
Issue: Feb 2010, Vol. 12, No. 3
Defence and the Growing Financial Challenge
The Ministry of Defence is in increasing financial difficulty as the financial needs of the MoD's Equipment Procurement Plan exceeds the potential financial resources. What are the likely solutions in the forthcoming Defence Review?
RUSI Acquisition Focus
Debate: Is Digitisation Dead?
A deabte on the merits of Dr Jim Storr's 'The Failure of Digital CIS' from the October 2009 RDS.
David Lynam and Professor Richard Harper
The RDS Military Interview: Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton
Sir Stephen Dalton was appointed Chief of the Air Staff, UK in July 2009. A fast-jet pilot, he was UK Director of the Eurofighter Programme and later Director General Typhoon. Until his current post, he was Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Personnel. He talked to Bill Kincaid on 5 January 2010.
Sir Stephen Dalton
Rifle-Mounted Gunfire Location
A gunshot location sensor which is small enough to rifle-mounted has been created. Potentially it could be wirelessly networked for real-time plotting or dissemination of live-fire contacts
Alan Wignall
Intelligent Textiles: Reducing the Burden
The development of electrically conductive textiles and the significant advantages that they promise can provide a solution to some of the 'burden' problems for dismounted soldiers and marines.
Dr Stan Swallow and Asha Peta Thompson
High Explosive: Shock Effect in Dismounted Combat
If properly employed, concentrated High Explosive is the main instrument for achieving shock effect on the battlefield. Shock effect is critical in achieving sudden, decisive tactical success
Dr Jim Storr
Protective Technologies
Technology is expensive and we must be careful that we do not assist terrorists in one of their key strategic aims, which is to “strangle the enemy financially”
Matt Minshall
India's Defence Industry
India’s emergence as a significant participant in global commercial markets contrasts with the sluggish development of the country’s defence industrial sectors.
Guy Anderson
Too Big to Fail: The A400M Bail Out
When the A400M eventually becomes available, it will be more expensive, delayed
and less capable than contractually agreed. The willingness of European Governments, and especially the UK’s, to bail out the programme is troubling.
Bjoern Siebert
Lean Thinking In An Uncertain Environment
Lean thinking even in an uncertain environment can lead to a doubling of efficiency and a significant reduction in resources
Dr Peter Tatham and Major David Worrell