Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) opens its doors today, Tuesday 12th September.
DSEI 2023 will host more than 1,500 defence suppliers – including all the major players such as BAE Systems, General Dynamics UK, Lockheed Martin UK, Northrop Grumman and MBDA.
The show floor will also be full of innovative SMEs looking to highlight their capabilities and make important business contacts to support their growth.
The overarching theme of this edition of DSEI is ‘Achieving an Integrated Force”, building strongly on DSEI 2021’s focus on Multi-Domain Integration. Against the backdrop of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Integrated Review and Defence Command Paper Refreshes, efficient inter-force collaboration and what this means for current and future platforms is now at the forefront of this year’s DSEI topics.
Our team will be covering every aspect, stay tuned!
The Tempest ‘mock-up’ looks awesome!!!
Inexplicably, despite my years of experience in working for Babcock International etc, the management of DSEI have failed to provide me with a ticket, let alone a “plus one” !!
I am sure that this is an oversight on their part – or possibly, they are still in the post 🙂
Think you’ve got to ask for a ticket! I last went to DSEI the day after 9/11. Massive security and a very different atmosphere to usual, as you would expect.
Interesting how the word oversight can have two completely different connotations. You’re using the usual derivation we’ve come to know and love prefaced by ‘an’. Whatever happened to the more preferable ‘provide’?
Rgs
Sorry to hear it. This will be my first, and I only wish I had more time there.
The ‘Tempest’ mock up looks like… a stretched F35? It looks shite, and is way way too big. Mebbe its only that size to allow them to attach current armament to.
Small is good, and small would be better. That ‘hulk’ of a thing would be fantastic, if it housed several drones, with the hulk acting as the ‘mother ship’.
The possibilities are endless… well, maybe not for the idiots responsible for that thing.
It is cheaper to build large than try to wield a big shoehorn.
Hypersonics, the real kind, will be very big and very heavy.
Direct energy weapons will require a lot of energy. Which means big heavy engines which means big wings for efficient cruising.
The concept here is to build a big, fast & stealthy platform with oodles of excess power.
That is the fast way to do this.
RAF wanted Typhoon to be bigger as they knew, it eased the developmental and upgrade pathways.