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Biography
Nick Floyd & Jeffrey McFarlane
Lieutenant Colonel & Captain

Nick Floyd

Lieutenant Colonel Nick Floyd has over 30 years’ regular service with the Royal Australian Artillery in gun regiments, instructional institutions, Army and Defence Headquarters, and has served on warlike operations in Iraq (2005, 2017) and Afghanistan (2010). As a Director of the Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company, he convened the Firepower: Lessons from the Great War Seminar Series. He has postgraduate degrees in History and in Defence Studies, and was the Army Contributing Historian to Australia’s Official History Project in 2018-19. He is also a published author for Clash of the Gods of War.

Jeffrey McFarlane

Captain Jeffrey McFarlane has over 20 years reserve service with the Royal Australian Artillery in gun regiments, instructional institutions and Army headquarters. He assisted as a Staff Officer to the Head of Regiment in organising the 150th Anniversary of Australian Artillery commemorative activities and social media campaign. He has graduate degrees in Economics and Commerce.

Personnel launch a live Bolide missile at night.
The Future Ready RAA | Part 4: Artillery Air-Land Systems
This is the final part of the four part series of articles exploring the future ready Royal Australian Artillery and how Australia's Gunners will maintain stride with peer fighting forces around the globe. This fourth part looks at the potential future of Australia's artillery combat capability, focusing on ground-based air and missile defence, surveillance and target acquisition.
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Australian Army soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery prepare to fire a M777 155mm howitzer during an exercise.
The Future Ready RAA | Part 3: Artillery Deep Fires
This is part three of a four part series of articles exploring the future ready Royal Australian Artillery and how Australia's Gunners will maintain stride with peer fighting forces around the globe. This third part looks at the potential future of Australia’s artillery combat capability, focusing on deep fires.
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Soldiers prepare to reload an M777 155mm howitzer gun.
The Future Ready RAA | Part 2: Artillery Close Support
This is part two of a four part series of articles exploring the future ready Royal Australian Artillery and how Australia's Gunners will maintain stride with peer fighting forces around the globe. This second part looks at the potential future of Australia's artillery combat capability, focusing on close support to manoeuvre forces.
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Soldiers from the Royal Australian Artillery engage a target with M777 Howitzer rounds during the firepower demonstration.
The Future Ready Royal Australian Artillery – A Perspective | Part 1: Framing the Issue
This is part one of a four part series of articles exploring the future ready Royal Australian Artillery and how Australia's Gunners will maintain stride with peer fighting forces around the globe. Part one looks at the current role, structure, and application of Australia’s artillery combat capability.
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