743 pgs, 2007, AIAA
ISBN 978-1563478741

This book attempts to lay the foundation for meeting the new challenges in tactical and strategic missile guidance. The principles of both are presented in common language, notation, and perspective. The mathematics, arguments, and examples presented in the text are intended to be nonintimidating so that the designers working in the strategic world will be able to understand and appreciate the difficulty of the strategic problem and vice versa.

Numerous examples are presented to illustrate all of the concepts presented in the text. In later chapters, examples are presented showing elementary ways in which tactical and strategic guidance principles can be combined. In this way the potential for a cross-fertilization of ideas, which is necessary for today's challenges in guidance technology, is increased.

Software included.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Numerical Techniques
2. Fundamentals of Tactical Missile Guidance
3. Method of Adjoints and the Homing Loop
4. Noise Analysis
5. Covariance Analysis and the Homing Loop
6. Proportional Navigation and Miss Distance
7. Digital Fading Memory Noise Filter in the Homing Loop
8. Advanced Guidance Laws
9. Kalman Filters and the Homing Loop
10. Other Forms of Tactical Guidance
11. Tactical Zones
12. Strategic Considerations
13. Boosters
14. Lambert Guidance
15. Strategic Intercepts
16. Miscellaneous Topics
17. Ballistic Target Properties
18. Extended Kalman Filtering and Ballistic Coefficient Estimation
19. Ballistic Target Challenges
    

Appendix A: Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance Software
Appendix B: Units