Advanced tactical and strategic missile guidance. Volume 2 /

Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance contains twenty-two chapters of which chapters one through nine are completely new. The remaining chapters in this volume are updated from previous editions of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, a Summerfield Book Award winner. --

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zarchan, Paul (Author)
Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Reston, Virginia : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Incorporated, [2019].
Edition:Seventh edition.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Unstable airframe and the three-loop autopilot
  • Flexible body dynamics
  • Modern control and autopilot design
  • Advanced adjoint applications
  • Shaping filters and their use in miss distance analysis
  • Weaving targets
  • Filtering and weaving targets
  • Filter bank approach to weaving target problem
  • Predictor-corrector guidance
  • Optimal guidance law to minimize interceptor jerk
  • Use of Poisson/Singer target manuever model for Kalman filter design
  • Alternative approaches to guidance law development
  • Trajectory shaping guidance
  • Guidance methods against stationary targets
  • The vertical-S target maneuver
  • Improving the performance of a tail-controlled missile at high altitudes
  • Engagement simulations in three dimensions
  • Smallest possible miss distance for a radar homing missile
  • Comparison of differential game guidance with optimal guidance
  • Boost-phase filtering options
  • Kinematics of intercepting a ballistic target
  • Kill vehicle guidance and control sizing for boost-phase intercept.