IET Friday Lunch/Lecture event, Friday 27th June 2014 at Imperial
College London.
Lunch from 1200, lecture 1400 to 1500
Speaker: Dr. Anthony C Davies, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London
Visiting Professor, Kingston University, Surrey, England
An illustrated historical overview of some surface to air guided
missiles, their control and their targets and aspects of the
associated electronic warfare.
The talk will illustrate the progression from the large ‘Berkut’
liquid fuelled surface to air guided missiles deployed to protect
Moscow in 1956 (which altered the Cold War balance of power) to the
small portable surface to air guided missiles which enable a single
individual to bring down a commercial airliner and the recent
generation of versatile ‘plug and play’, ‘shoot and scoot’ easily
deployed long-life missiles. The extensive range of supporting search
and acquisition radars, etc. and more recently, various supplementary
passive (nonemitting)
search methods will be shown. The impact on the design of the flying targets and
developments to protect them from successful attack (stealth, decoys, and the
identification, location and destruction of emitters) will be
explained, leading to the present schemes for unmanned fighters and
bombers with cyber-warfare to disable enemy defences.
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Dr Elizabeth Bruton
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leeds
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