International Ballistics Society

34th International Symposium on Ballistics (ISB) - Registration now open

This symposium is co-chaired by Don Carlucci and Casey Uhlig and will take place at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Florida, USA, during May 19-23, 2025. The deadline for submissions for the Jack Riegel Student Awards has been postponed to 22 December 2024. The IBS website is now open for the submission of abstracts in the following areas: Interior Ballistics, Exterior Ballistics, Launch Dynamics, Vulnerability & Survivability, Terminal Ballistics, Explosion Mechanics, Hypersonics, Applications of AI in Ballistics, Emerging Technologies & Drones. Further details on the symposium, including registration and hotel links, are at the link below.

Tutorials - why wait until the next symposium?

We currently offer two online courses on IB101 Introduction to Interior Ballistics (video) by Dr Sebastian Wurster from Fraunhofer ICT in Germany and EB101 Introduction to Exterior Ballistics (pdf presentation slides) by Pierre Wey from ISL in France. Interested? Just log in as a member and go to Online Learning.

35th International Symposium on Ballistics

The IBS is pleased to announce the 35th ISB will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa, during 18-23 October 2026. Set those dates in your diaries now! The symposium chair will be Thanyani Pandelani with co-chair Tleyane Sono. Congratulations to them and to the South African Ballistics Organisation (SABO) which submitted an excellent proposal.

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33rd International Symposium on Ballistics (ISB).

The printed proceedings will be available to purchase from the link below after the symposium.
33rd_ISB_proceedings.

Papers from the 32nd ISB have been added to the Online Store.
Papers published in the conference proceedings of both the 32nd and 33rd ISB have been indexed and now appear in Scopus.
Please contact Clive Woodley, membership@ballistics.org, if you have any questions or difficulties accessing them.

34th ISB - Special Issue of Defence Technology (DT) (Impact Factor: 5.0)

Defence Technology is pleased to accept submission of full papers for the Special Issue of Defence Technology journal for the 34th International Symposium on Ballistics.
The link for full paper submission is below. You will need to register if you do not already have an account at DT.
DT-SI
Please ensure you select "VSI: 34th International Symp Ballistics" for article type.

Papers submitted will be subjected to peer review and only papers of a high quality will be accepted for publication in DT. If your paper is not accepted then you will still be able to submit it to the symposium proceedings through the IBS website.

The deadline for submission of full papers to DT is 30 November 2024.
You must also submit an abstract to the 34th ISB - the link for this is on the IBS website now.

Any questions should be directed to Clive Woodley, membership@ballistics.org.

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