Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Volume 2

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