14^th International Armament Conference on:
Scientific Aspects of Armament & Safety Technology

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Scientific Conferences on Armament have been organized by the Institute of Armament Technology (IAT) from the Military University of Technology (MUT) since 1996. The inventors of conferences were:

• Commander of the Faculty of Armament and Aviation from MUT-  Colonel Professor Wiesław SOBIERAJ,
• Head of the Institute of Armament Technology of the Faculty of Armaments and Aviation from MUT - Colonel Professor Józef GACEK.

On the basis of the agreement settled in 2008 between the Institute of Armament Technology of the Faculty of Mechatronics from the Military University of Technology and Military Institute of Armament Technology, it was decided that once a year both the above-mentioned institutions will be the joint organizers of the International Conference on Armament under the name ARMAMENT, which:

• in even years - International Armament Conference on "Scientific Aspects of Armament and Safety Technology",
• in odd years - International Scientific and Technical Conference on "Problems of Development, Production, and Exploitation of Armament Technology".

The idea behind the creation of the ARMAMENT Conference was the integration of the scientific and industrial community working for the Polish arms industry, whose products are dedicated especially to the Polish Army. It was the organizers' desire that the Conference permanently inscribed in the calendar of events promoting scientific achievements and technical thought (especially Polish) in the field of broadly understood armaments and security issues. And it probably happened as the Conference has been consistently developing, gaining many partners and participants from Poland and abroad.

So far, 12 ARMAMENT Conferences on "Scientific Aspects of Armament and Safety Technology" took place in Solina, Waplewo, Pułtusk, Ryn and Jachranka:

• 1^st Conference in Solina – November 27^th – 29^th, 1996 (60 papers, including three foreign ones),
• 2^nd Conference in Waplewo – October 27^th - 29^th, 1998 (90 papers, including 7 foreign ones),
• 3^rd Conference in Waplewo – October 11^th – 13^th, 2000 (95 papers, including 10 foreign ones),
• 4^th Conference in Waplewo – November 9^th - 11^th, 2002 (111 papers, including 27 foreign ones),
• 5^th Conference in Waplewo – October 6^th – 8^th, 2004 (136 papers, including 26 foreign ones),
• 6^th Conference in Waplewo – November 11^th – 13^th, 2006 (129 papers, including 36 foreign ones),
• 7^th Conference in Pułtusk – October 8^th -10^th, 2008 (112 papers, including 24 foreign ones),
• 8^th Conference in Pułtusk – November 6^th – 8^th, 2010 (114 papers, including 11 foreign ones),
• 9^th Conference in Pułtusk – September 25^th -28^th, 2012 (96 papers, including 12 foreign ones),
• 10^th Conference in Ryn – September 15^th – 18^th, 2014 (133 papers, including 21 English-speakers),
• 11^th Conference in Ryn – September 19^th – 22^nd, 2016 (103 papers, including 23 English speakers),
• 12^th Conference in Jachranka – September 17^th – 20^th, 2018 (127 papers, including 6 English speakers),
• 13^th Conference was canceled due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

In 2014, on the occasion of the Jubilee 10^th International Armament Conference, a book entitled "Scientific Armaments Conferences" (editorial office of the MUT Publishers, Warsaw, 2014) was published. The book presents almost a 20-year history of scientific meetings in the field of armaments and security and their achievements manifesting itself in almost 1 100 conference speeches.