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