Sam Cranny-Evans
RUSI Associate Fellow, Military Sciences
Associated with the Military Sciences research group
Biography
Sam Cranny-Evans is the editor and owner of Calibre Defence, a UK-based defence news outlet and consultancy.
His areas of focus include land warfare and the evolution of technologies used in that domain, including armoured vehicles, artillery, communications and the growing role of autonomous systems. He has worked at RUSI as a C4ISR analyst as well as at Jane's, where he was the lead analyst in the land team.
Sam has also written a book entitled 'Target Stopped: The History of the Modern Tank', which charts the technologies used in tanks from 1945 through to today.
External publications
This report by Open Source Centre and RUSI provides a comprehensive overview of Russia’s artillery supply chain, with the goal to inform a cross-government, and ideally inter-governmental, approach to disrupting this specific supply chain. (10 October 2024)
The opening phases of the Russian invasion of Ukraine demonstrated the need for layered ground-based air defences that are capable of protecting critical national defence infrastructure. - Article by Sam Cranny-Evans, 1 March 2022, Shephard
In this podcast host John “Slick” Baum is joined by Justin Bronk and Samuel Cranny-Evans of the Royal United Services Institute and the Mitchell Institute’s own Heather Penney to dive into Russian strategy. (Broadcast 18 December 2021)
'The tank is dead. Long live the tank' by Jon Hawkes, Sam Cranny-Evans and Mark Cazalet, Wavell Room October 1, 2020
