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.

A separate companion volume, Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction, Seventh Edition, Volume 1 (978-1-62410-537-1)contains 23 of the 34 chapters that appeared previously in the sixth edition and features major updates to nine of these 23 chapters.

Contents

Chapter 1 Unstable Airframe and the Three-Loop Autopilot
Chapter 2 Flexible Body Dynamics
Chapter 3 Modern Control and Autopilot Design
Chapter 4 Advanced Adjoint Applications
Chapter 5 Shaping Filters and Their Use in Miss Distance Analysis
Chapter 6 Weaving Targets
Chapter 7 Filtering and Weaving Targets
Chapter 8 Filter Bank Approach to Weaving Target Problem
Chapter 9 Predictor-Corrector Guidance
Chapter 10 Optimal Guidance Law to Minimize Interceptor Jerk
Chapter 11 Use of Poisson/Singer Target Maneuver Model for Kalman Filter Design
Chapter 12 Alternative Approaches to Guidance Law Development
Chapter 13 Trajectory Shaping Guidance
Chapter 14 Guidance Methods Against Stationary Targets
Chapter 15 The Vertical-S Target Maneuver
Chapter 16 Improving the Performance of a Tail-Controlled Missile at High Altitudes
Chapter 17 Engagement Simulations in Three Dimensions
Chapter 18 Smallest Possible Miss Distance for a Radar Homing Missile
Chapter 19 Comparison of Differential Game Guidance with Optimal Guidance
Chapter 20 Boost-Phase Filtering Options
Chapter 21 Kinematics of Intercepting a Ballistic Target
Chapter 22 Kill Vehicle Guidance and Control Sizing for Boost-Phase Intercept

Paul Zarchan holds a BSEE from City College of New York and a MSEE from Columbia University. He has more than 40 years of experience in missile guidance and control. He worked as principal engineer for Raytheon, as senior research engineer with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, as a principal member of the technical staff at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, and as a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, working on problems related to missile defense. He is also the author of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction, Volume 1 and Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering, Fourth Edition.