Conference Day Two: 29 April 2009
08.30 Coffee
08.50 Chairman’s Address And Opening
Remarks
Elfan Ap Rees
Editor
Helicopter International
09.00 Tiger Programme Update
- Tiger Programme and specific feature of the aircraft
- Roadmap to Operational Capability
- Development Status
Lieutenant Colonel Jean Baptiste Pouret
Programme Manager-Tiger
French Army
09.40 Arh-70a Armed Reconnaissance
Helicopter (arh)
- ARH Imperatives
- Requirements
- Programme Summary
Colonel Keith Robinson
Programme Manager, Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter
US Army
10.20 Coffee Break And Networking
10.50 New Technology Against Man
Portable Air Defence Systems
(manpads)
- Threatening scenario (asymmetric warfare)
- Limits of traditional solutions (flares, IRCM, Lamp, Gas and Solid State Laser)
- Fiber Laser
- New design approach
Fabrizio Baroncelli
Retired Naval Officer, Business Development Director
Elettronica SpA
11.30 Close Air Support (cas) Using The Apache
Platform
- Apache operations: Manoeuvres versus CAS
- Fratricide and collateral damage prevention
- Joint fires or only rotary wing?
- Maintain your Commander’s trust, your mindset and your objective
Lieutenant Colonel Eichelsheim
Commander, 301 Squadron
Royal Netherlands Air Force
12.10 Networking Lunch
13.30 Future Military Helicopter Markets
- International Market
- Attack Helicopters
- U.S. Programmes
- U.K. Helicopter Programmes
- International Upgrades
- Emerging Markets
- Market Forecast
Elfan Ap Rees
Editor
Helicopter International
14.10 Russian Attack Helicopter Programmes
- Key updates in the Kamov range of models
- Comparison to similar western model performance
- Future developments and procurement prospects for Kamov attack helicopters
Sergei Mikheyev
General Designer
Kamov Aircraft Corporation
14.50 Afternoon Tea And Networking
15.20 V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor
- Programme
- Concepts of operation
- US Marine Corps Deployments
- Future developments
Mr Kenneth W Moritz
Director, Business Development, V-22 Joint Programme Office
US Department of Defense
16.00 Combar Search And Rescue/joint
Personnel Recovery
- Criticality of reporting and locating
- Communications
- Recovery Vehicles
- Smart Survivors
- Situational Superiority
Colonel Darrel Whitcomb
USAF Reserve (Ret’d), PR/CSAR Author
Lecturer and Consultant
16.40 Chairman’s Summary And Close Of Conference
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