Asian Artillery: Superintendent from the Republic of Korea Armed Forces to Discuss Range and Lethality

LONDON, June 27, 2011 -

Brigadier General Lim Sang Soo, Superintendent, School of
Artillery, Republic of Korea Armed Forces,will
be speaking on how to enhance current artillery systems by
developing future doctrine and strengthening capabilities at the href="futureartilleryasia.com/Event.aspx?id=494266">Future
Artillery Asia conference, September 6th-7th, at the Swissôtel
Merchant Court Hotel in Singapore.

To meet urgent regional threats of countries such as South
Korea, India, and Singapore, Brig Gen Lim will be
providing operational feedback into current systems such as
the Samsung K9Thunder- a South Korean self-propelled 155 mm
howitzer from Samsung Techwin. According to the href="www.samsungtechwin.com/product/product_05_01_01.asp">company
website, the K9 Thunder has an increased rate to enable rapid
and concentrated artillery power, providing superior mobility and
survivability.

The implementation of this type of system plays an important
part in the South Korean modernisation process and provides
valuable operational feedback for other Asian and Asian-Pacific
nations.

Brig Gen Lim is a former director of the fire and munition
program department and has in-depth experience of acquisition
programmes, force planning and G-3 operations. At Future
Artillery Asia he will join a href="www.futureartilleryasia.com/Event.aspx?id=515096">speaker
faculty of international experts such as Colonel Pedro P.
Biasbas, Commander, Army Artillery Regiment, Philippine
Armed Forces, who is leading a session on the Capability
Upgrade Programme (CUP).

Additional featured speakers include:

• Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand D. Almoite, Philippine
  Marine Corps, reviewing The Philippine Marine Corps experience
  of responding to a threat environment

• Lieutenant Colonel Richard Vagg, Australian School of
  Artillery, targeting another critical issue for the
  Asian-Pacific artillery community: how to achieve a modern, fully
  digitised battlespace

• Brigadier (ret‘d) Gurmeet Kanwal,
  Indian Ministry of Defence, discussinghow to increase the
  degradation and destruction of the target through delivery of fire
  in depth by all means necessary

Session details are available on the event website at href="futureartilleryasia.com/Event.aspx?id=494266">www.futureartilleryasia.com,
the full programme is also href="www.futureartilleryasia.com/Event.aspx?id=494262">available
for download. In addition, visitors can access the href="www.futureartilleryasia.com/Event.aspx?id=494260">Media
Centre for related content and articles.

Defence IQ
invites Flag Officers 1 Star and above to attend the conference for
free, by requesting a complimentary pass from Johanna Mikkela at href="mailto:defence@iqpc.co.uk?subject=Future%20Artillery%20Asia">defence@iqpc.co.uk.

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