2020 International Conference on Defence Technology, Nanjing, China – Spring Proceedings

I am hugely delighted and excited to be writing this preface to the Spring Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Defence Technology (ICDT). This is the second ICDT and is intended to be one in a long series of ICDT, taking place at intervals of approximately 18 months. The 2020 ICDT is co-chaired by Professor Changgen Feng and myself and supported by the China Ordnance Society. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the ICDT was postponed from 20-24 April to 26-30 October, 2020. We recognised it was important to many authors that their papers were published in April, as originally scheduled. Therefore, with the kind agreement of the publisher (Institute of Physics (IOP)), the 2020 ICDT Proceedings will be published in two editions, the first in Spring and the second in Autumn. Authors were given a choice in which Proceedings their paper would be published. The ICDT provides an opportunity for scientists, engineers, and others to report, share and discuss current research and advances in defence technology and their visions for the future. The symposium allows exposure to the most current state-of-the-art technology in defence science, provides opportunities for interactions with some of the world’s leading experts in the field of defence science, and offers the chance to present, exhibit, and share scientific research and development with an international group of professionals.