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⇱ Justin Bronk | Royal United Services Institute

Biography

Justin Bronk is the Senior Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology in the Military Sciences team at RUSI, and the Editor of the RUSI Defence Systems online journal.

His particular areas of expertise include the modern combat air environment, Russian and Chinese ground-based air defences and fast jet capabilities, the air war during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, unmanned combat aerial vehicles and novel weapons technology. He has written extensively for RUSI and a variety of external publications, as well as appearing regularly in the international media.

Justin also holds an Associate Professor position at the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy, and between January 2023 and August 2025 was a Professor II at the same department. His PhD examined Balancing Imagination and Design in British Combat Aircraft Development at the Defence Studies Department of Kings College London. 

Justin is also a private pilot with more than 300 flying hours in light aircraft and gliders. In addition, he has over 35 hours backseat flying experience with 12 different air forces on fast jet types including Eurofighter Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen, Tornado, Mirage 2000, F-15, F-16, F/A-18, MiG-29, M-346, T-38, TA-50 and Hawk.

  • The primary advantage of using this sort of ramming tactic without the usual explosive warhead would be the option to possibly be able to recover and reuse the interceptor drone after a successful hit,” explained Prof Justin Bronk, a senior research fellow for airpower and technology at the Royal United Services Institute.

    Justin Bronk

    Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology

  • Iran is probably now getting towards ... the remaining carefully husbanded core of what's left of its ballistic missile arsenal and having to be pretty careful about how it uses them...I suspect the Iranian military is getting rather worried, however, because every missile they fire is irreplaceable at this stage, at least in an immediate sense, because of the air superiority that US and Israeli forces have over pretty much all of Iran and have had that for a while. So attempting to build new ones in factories and move them to launch sites and things is going to be pretty much impossible at any scale."

    Justin Bronk

    Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology

  • Most pre-war public estimates of Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal had the upper reach at around 2000kms for the larger Shahab-3 and Sejjil types; far short of the range needed to hit Diego Garcia. However, the launches in this case may have been improvised use of the Simorgh space launch vehicle, which could offer greater range as a ballistic missile; albeit at the likely cost of terminal accuracy.”

    Justin Bronk

    Senior Research Fellow, Airpower & Technology

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