Closure of CDS Impact and Armour Group and Ranges: Impact on Student Experience

Closing down an area that publishes research used by the rest of the world is staggeringly short sighted.

Having done my PhD in this area I feel that this would be a great loss when there is already a threat of a huge capability gap in the explosive sector.

This is a big mistake, the UK needs to maintain this level of capability as a minimum.

Forensic ballistics students use the range as part of their practical experience. It will detract a significant unique selling point from the course.

To use these academic collaborators and this invaluable resource would be a real blow to the forensic and military / ballistic research community.

Should this closure go ahead, the United Kingdom defence force establishment will pay very heavy price in the future as a result of the loss of the knowledge, expertise and research capability that underpins military research.

It would be a huge loss of what makes the university unique.

This clearly hasn’t been thought through and the subsequent consequences are not recognised. It’s shows how out of touch the management team really are.

The reality is that the closure of the Impact and Armour group will result in a loss of expertise in the defence industries and fundamental research will cease and students from the Australian Army will be disadvantaged.

As a graduate of Shrivenham this would be a travesty as the impact and armour group is an internationally renowned and important group.

This is a unique selling point for CDS. I urge the major stakeholders to view once again the Cranfield Shrivenham Virtual Video (http://virtualtour.cranfield.ac.uk/?s=shrivenham); if their own marketing campaign does not highlight the importance of this Group, then I dont know what will.

To vlose such an internationally renowned group is a sign of an out of touch leadership team at the university.

This is very shortsighted and hopefully will be overturned.

Idiotic idea to close the impact and armour group and ranges.

This is a unique resource. Removing it will have a weakening effect on Cranfield's reputation and business as a whole. As the blast and small arms threats faced by our military and law enforcement change, this facility is needed more than ever.

Crazy decision.

Former Student at Cranfield MSc Forensic Ballistics

This is a ludicrous proposal-in effect closing the department offering a unique service within UK Academia. The outputs from IAG have in recent years been instrumental in enhancing body armour design and soldier safety. If this resource goes it demonstrates a total lack of understanding of this work by the University.

This would be a tragedy

Very frustrating and disappointing news to hear about this closure of the IAG and the Ranges - this decision appears to have been made without any consideration to the effect on the experience and position of current students within that group such as myself. The work being carried out within IAG both by the staff and students is extremely valuable and beneficial research, so I therefore stand absolutely against this move to close IAG and the ranges down.