Missile design guide /

The handbook consists of full color figures with self-standing graphs, tables, charts and diagrams. It is aimed toward the needs of missile engineers, system engineers, system analysts, program managers, aerospace engineering students and professors. Readers have a quick reference for missile design...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fleeman, Eugene L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reston, Virginia : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., [2022].
Series:AIAA education series.
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Summary:The handbook consists of full color figures with self-standing graphs, tables, charts and diagrams. It is aimed toward the needs of missile engineers, system engineers, system analysts, program managers, aerospace engineering students and professors. Readers have a quick reference for missile design, missile technologies, launch platform integration, targeting, fire control integration, missile system measures of merit and the missile system development process. Topics discussed include key drivers in the missile design, development and system engineering process, critical tradeoffs, methods and technologies in aerodynamic, propulsion, structure, seeker, warhead, fusing and subsystems sizing to meet flight performance and other requirements, launch platform and fire control system integration, robustness, lethality, guidance, navigation and control, accuracy, observables, survivability, safety, reliability and cost considerations, missile sizing examples, missile system and missile technology development process.
Physical Description:xv, 466 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781624106187
1624106188