Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction, Volume 1

Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction, Seventh Edition, Volume 1 contains 23 of the 34 chapters that appeared previously in the sixth edition and features major updates to nine of these 23 chapters. A separate, new companion volume titled Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Seventh Edition, Volume 2 (978-1-62410-538-8)features nine completely new chapters along with thirteen updated chapters that have appeared in previous editions of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, a Summerfield Book Award winner.

CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Numerical Techniques
Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Tactical Missile Guidance
Chapter 3 Method of Adjoints and the Homing Loop
Chapter 4 Noise Analysis
Chapter 5 Covariance Analysis and the Homing Loop
Chapter 6 Proportional Navigation and Miss Distance
Chapter 7 Digital Fading Memory Noise Filters in the Homing Loop
Chapter 8 Advanced Guidance Laws
Chapter 9 Kalman Filters and the Homing Loop
Chapter 10 Tactical Zones
Chapter 11 Ballistic Target Properties
Chapter 12 Extended Kalman Filtering and Ballistic Coefficient Estimation
Chapter 13 Ballistic Target Challenges
Chapter 14 Other Forms of Tactical Guidance
Chapter 15 Strategic Considerations
Chapter 16 Boosters
Chapter 17 Lambert Guidance
Chapter 18 Strategic Intercepts
Chapter 19 Miscellaneous Topics
Chapter 20 Multiple Targets
Chapter 21 Representing Missile Airframe with Transfer Functions
Chapter 22 Introduction to Flight Control Design
Chapter 23 Three-Loop Autopilot

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 Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Seventh Edition, Volume 2 and Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering, Fourth Edition.