Guided weapons system design

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/Проектирование систем управляемого оружия.Monograph. -New Delhi: Defense research and development organization, 1998. -178 p.Dr. R. Balakrishnan has brought out his vast experience in design and development of various missile systems in the form of a monograph for missile design. It is a well-prepared document and tremendous efforts have gone in detailing system design with illustrative examples for surface-to-air missile system. The monograph outlines system analysis and design in nine chapters. The design cycle covering the activity, responsibility and constraints, described in Chapter 1, discusses the existence of diverse configurations meeting the same mission requirements. A detailed methodology for guided weapons system study based on essential functional features is developed in Chapter2. The four important elements of the design problem are highlighted here and an admissible solution region is obtained for a fighter aircraft and a sailplane as case studies. In Chapter 3, a system model is described to include observation device, navigation and control system, and warhead effectiveness through miss distance, for a given target trajectory. Mathematical models based on command guidance policy have been developed in Chapter 4 and various important parameters like gain (k), velocity ratio (V,/ V;), command update time and rise time are evaluated for a surface-to-air weapon system. Similar mathematical models are developed in Chapter 5 for a chosen proportional navigation guidance policy. In Chapters 6, 7 and 8, the specification for aerodynamic configuration design, propulsion system design and structural design of the configuration have been generated using system model studies and nomograms to obtain admissible solution range for different characteristics of guided weapon systems have been generated. The levels of interaction in a guided weapons system design are discussed in Chapter9. This monograph, indeed, provides an effective approach to a guided weapon system design to meet the users' requirement from the fundamental system studies taking performance as a consideration within the given constraints. This monograph will be useful as a technical reference document and is highly suitable for the young scientists who are entering into the field of design of missile systems.Contents:Introduction.The design process.Guided weapons system.Systems study for command guided weapon systems.System study for proportional navigation weapon system.Aerodynamic configuration design.Propulsion system design.Structural design of configuration.Interactions in guided weapon systems.