In this note, a simplified model of radar homing interceptor engagements is described. This model permits analysis of the interaction among sensor parameters such as angular accuracy and acquisition range, interceptor parameters such as maneuver limits and response time and system parameters such as closing velocity and handover accuracy. Simple expressions are obtained for the sensor prediction accuracy using various types of range-dependent measurement errors. These include glint,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Weiner, Stephen D., MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB, *ANTIMISSILE...
Report developed under SBIR contract for topic BMDO 00-013. Launch vehicles for the Space Based Infrared System will include Titan Launch vehicles and the Air Force Space Operations Vehicle (SOV). Composite structures on the SOV (the military version of NASA's Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) will be too large to cure inside existing autoclaves. Electron Beam processing is one of the most promising approaches for out-of-autoclave composite curing and bonding. Recent technology demonstration...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Byrne, Catherine A, SCIENCE RESEARCH LAB INC SOMERVILLE MA, *COMPOSITE STRUCTURES,...
The problem is to protect a set of T identical targets that may come under attack by A identical weapons. The targets are to be defended by D identical interceptors, which must be preallocated to defend selected targets. The attacker is aware of the number of interceptors, but is ignorant of their allocation. The size of the attack is chosen by the attacker from within a specified range. The robust strategies developed in this paper do not require the defender to assume an attack size. Rather,...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bracken,J, INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA, *DEPLOYMENT, *ANTIMISSILE...
The work reported herein is aimed at the development of ultra-high-modulus graphite/epoxy structures for use in future advanced terminal interceptors (ATI). The work has shown that gore section layup used to fabricate interceptor frusta do not effect the strength or modulus of the frusta. Tests on flat panels representation of full thickness joints substantiated that the end joints will carry ATI loads. Finally, two short but full thickness frusta with antenna window cutouts were fabricated and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Adsit,Norman R, GENERAL DYNAMICS SAN DIEGO CA CONVAIR DIV, *COMPOSITE MATERIALS,...
The purpose of this research was to develop a methodology to aid a decision maker in determining the optimum mix of escort and strike aircraft in a tactical strike formation. The research had four main objectives: (1) Analyze likely air combat between enemy fighter interceptors and offensive aircraft formation. (2) Develop a mathematical model of likely air combat, which could determine the expected outcomes as a function of decision variable--the force mix. (3) Develop a computer program for...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Avais, Muhammad, AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF...
Image processing algorithms enable a kinetic kill vehicle (KKV) with an IR imaging sensor to intercept a missile warhead in space. The algorithms are required to determine the target position soon enough and with such accuracy that the KKV can divert itself toward a successful impact. This is affected by (1) target brightness, shape, rotational motion, and associated objects such as debris, (2) sensor characteristics including aperture size and signal to noise ratios, (3) the KKV's divert...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hung, L. L., ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL ANAHEIM CA, *ALGORITHMS, *IMAGE PROCESSING,...
The DoD investment of nominally $200 million per year is focused on four high power laser (HPL) concepts: Space-Based Laser (SBL), a Ballistic Missile Defense Organization effort that addresses boost-phase intercept for Theater Missile Defense and National Missile Defense, Airborne Laser (ABL), an Air Force effort that addresses boost-phase intercept for Theater Missile Defense, Ground-Based Laser (GBL), an Air Force effort addressing space control, and Anti-Ship Missile Defense (ASMD), a Navy...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Muller, Clifford H, PHILLIPS LAB KIRTLAND AFB NM, *HIGH ENERGY LASERS, TEST AND...
Several studies and reports over the past ten years have discussed the need for a low cost interceptor for use in air defense against low tech air breathing threats. The Low Cost Interceptor (LCI) program that Miltec Missiles and Space Company has managed for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command's Office of Technical Integration and Interoperability since April 2001 was implemented to address that need. The LCI program has developed several interceptor...
Topics: DTIC Archive, MILTEC MISSILES AND SPACE COMPANY HUNTSVILLE AL, *AIR DEFENSE, *THREATS,...
Verification of arms control agreements could be facilitated by deploying ICBMs in a number of identical areas, one or more of which could be chosen for inspection. The paper treats the attack and defense of ICBMs deceptively based and defended by interceptors. A given number of interceptors can be concentrated in selected areas or can be assigned uniformly across areas. The interceptors can be constrained to defend specific missiles or can be preferentially assigned to attackers after the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bracken, Jerome, INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA PROGRAM ANALYSIS DIV,...
Successive administrations have urged the creation of an antimissile system to protect against long-range ballistic missile threats from rogue states. The Bush Administration believes that North Korea and Iran are strategic threats and questions whether they can be deterred by conventional means. The Administration has built long-range missile defense bases in Alaska and California to protect against North Korean missile threats. Although the system has been tested, most agree that further...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hildreth, Steven A, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE,...
High birefringence and low viscosity liquid crystals are crucial for improving the response time of an agile laser beam steering device. Nematic liquid crystals with birefringence greater than 0.4, low absorption and good photo and thermal stability are investigated.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wu, Shin-Tson, HRL LABS LLC MALIBU CA, *ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS, *LASER...
A satellite-communications terminal geolocation is analyzed by satellite interception, whereby a number of spaceborne interceptors transpond the frequency band of interest to a terrestrial location for processing. The general formulas for the interception accuracy are summarized, and a strawman interceptor system is proposed. Interception regions for prototypical terminals and satellites are calculated and the results are presented parametrically as a function of uplink SNR. The optimum angular...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sonnenschein, Alexander, MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB, *ANGLES,...
This study used computer simulation to investigate escort fighter formations unknown interceptor threat environment. A USAF computer simulation model, TAC , was used to simulate air combat between the escorts and the interceptors in several different combat scenarios. The escort formations were defined by the vertical and horizontal distances of the escort fighters from the main strike body. Interceptors'-were characterized as one of two types of fighters with dissimilar aircraft frames and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Ilhan, Mustafa, AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING,...
The Science and Technology Directorate of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization is conducting programs to characterize and measure the radiation emitted by the flows about hypersonic vehicles. In addition to understanding the basic physics of high temperature plasmas, ongoing analyses are establishing how such emissions are useful for the detection of theater missile targets using the mid-wave infra-red (MWIR) spectral region (3 - 5 microns) as the baseline and the ultraviolet (UV) or...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Levin, Deborah A., GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV WASHINGTON DC, *INFRARED DETECTION,...
The work reported herein is aimed at the development of ultra-high-modulus graphite/epoxy structures for use in future advanced terminal interceptors (ATI). The work has shown that gore section layup used to fabricate interceptor frusta do not effect the strength or modulus of the frusta. Tests on flat panels representation of full thickness joints substantiated that the end joints will carry ATI loads. Finally, two short but full thickness frusta with antenna window cutouts were fabricated and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Adsit,Norman R, GENERAL DYNAMICS SAN DIEGO CA CONVAIR DIV, *COMPOSITE MATERIALS,...
Sensors are well suited to deployment on highly-proliferated satellite platforms like singlet space-based interceptors (SBIs). Proliferated radars could achieve useful search rates. The simplest could be little more than altimeters that looked directly below to provide a continuous fence against low-flying aircraft. Mounting them on the SBI lifejackets should be inexpensive. Bus watching is a rough alternative to discrimination. Proliferation could allow multiple sensors to observe buses above...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Canavan, Gregory H., LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB NM, *DETECTORS, *MULTISENSORS, OPTICAL...
The effects of both natural and man-made Van Allen Belt (VAB) radiation at an altitude of 500 km are presented for various components of a prototypic space-based interceptor (SBI) weapon platform. The weapon platform is described in detail and represents the authors' concept of such a system. The calculated results show that the SBI platform will survive long term (10 years) exposure to natural VAB protons and electrons. However, when the electron belts are enhanced by the detonation of a...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Barnes, J. M., OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LAB TN, *STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE, *RADIATION...
The Dual-mode Experiment on Bow-shock Interactions (DEBI) project is designed to contribute further understanding toward the aerothermochemistry associated with hypersonic flight for interceptor applications within the Earth's atmosphere. Such detailed understanding is required to accurately model the optical radiation from high temperature flows. A main component of an interceptor target acquisition and tracking system suite is the optical sensor(s). Future missile interceptors are projected...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Phillips, Clifton B., Erdman, Peter W., Howlett, Carl, Levin, Deborah A., Lovern,...
The potential of using ram accelerator technology for an impulsive launcher of autonomously guided interceptors, such as the LEAP, has been studied during this contract period. In addition, fundamental investigations on some of the engineering issues which must be addressed for enabling ram accelerator propulsive modes to operate at 4 km/sec have been undertaken. An experimental investigation of the gas dynamic limits of ram accelerator operation has demonstrated the existence of two distinct...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bruckner, Adam P, WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE AEROSPACE AND ENERGETICS RESEARCH PROGRAM,...
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Regular Called Meeting. Eagle Scout Project for Fencing at Biry house, Ord. on city owned properties for rezoning, annexations, grease traps, pool re-plastering, loan for 1.5 million and purchasing policies.
Topics: Grease, Sand, oil Interceptors, WW Tx Plant additional loan, purchasing policy, pool re-plastering
As the simulation truth/model interface architect, I was charged with generating truth data for an intercontinental ballistic missile in flight. Further, I was responsible for presenting the Ground Based Interceptor simulation in a visual format. I used the Satellite Tool-Kit software to present the results of the simulation in a detailed, graphical format, and I used the supplementary Missile Flight Tool module to model an intercontinental ballistic missile and generate its corresponding truth...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Cone, Kyle M., AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH, *INTERFACES,...
In the summer of 1989, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) initiated studies to identify the best spacebased weapon concept, and in February 1990 it announced that Brilliant Pebbles was replacing the Space-Based Interceptor. The Brilliant Pebbles concept consists of several thousand interceptors orbiting the earth with the capability to detect and destroy targets by smashing into them at high speed. Each interceptor will be housed in a lifejacket that will provide, among other...
Topics: DTIC Archive, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS...
The work reported herein is aimed at the development of ultra-high-modulus graphite/epoxy structures for use in future advanced terminal interceptors (ATI). The work has shown that gore section layup used to fabricate interceptor frusta do not effect the strength or modulus of the frusta. Tests on flat panels representation of full thickness joints substantiated that the end joints will carry ATI loads. Finally, two short but full thickness frusta with antenna window cutouts were fabricated and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Adsit,Norman R, GENERAL DYNAMICS SAN DIEGO CA CONVAIR DIV, *COMPOSITE MATERIALS,...
The work reported herein is aimed at the development of ultra-high-modulus graphite/epoxy structures for use in future advanced terminal interceptors (ATI). The work has shown that gore section layup used to fabricate interceptor frusta do not effect the strength or modulus of the frusta. Tests on flat panels representation of full thickness joints substantiated that the end joints will carry ATI loads. Finally, two short but full thickness frusta with antenna window cutouts were fabricated and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Adsit,Norman R, GENERAL DYNAMICS SAN DIEGO CA CONVAIR DIV, *COMPOSITE MATERIALS,...
In this research project, we characterized the n-th order cyclostationarity properties of general types of LPI signals and used the characterizations to investigate and develop methods for both secure communication and interception. For secure communication, this includes means for reduction of strength of' and elimination of, cyclic features that could be exploited by an interceptor. Signal design for LPI communication was considered from the viewpoints of both the communicator's reception...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gardner, William A., STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING INC YOUNTVILLE CA, *SIGNAL...
This paper describes the design and performance of the subsystems being developed and flight tested for the ERINT-1 Missile. The ERINT-1 Program, sponsored by the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, consists of the design and flight test of a prototype missile and launch control system for defense against ballistic and maneuvering tactical missiles and aircraft and cruise missiles. The ERINT-1 Missile also has capability against air-breathing aircraft and cruise missiles. The technologies...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Herman, Ronal D., ARMY STRATEGIC DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL, *ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wells, Tim, BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION WASHINGTON DC, *ANTIMISSILE...
As part of the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) Exoatmospheric Flight Test (EFT), the Raytheon Infrared Center of Excellence (RIR CoE) has produced many high performance LWIR focal plane arrays (FPAs) for use in interceptor flight tests scheduled 1999. Each of the two LWIR FPAs per EKV consists of a single 256 x 256 S-117 readout multiplexer hybridized to a LWIR or VLWIR detector and mounted to a ceramic / beryllium module assembly. Flexible kapton cables with fine line constantan conductors...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Herring, J, RAYTHEON CO GOLETA CA INFRARED CENTER OF EXCELLENCE, *INFRARED DETECTORS,...
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Topics: Eagle Scout fence project, Comp Plan Public Hearing, ORdinance adopting Comp Plan, Ordinance...
To design, develop, and demonstrate the Responsive Aircraft Program for Theater Operations (RAPTOR), an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of sustained, high altitude, long term flight, and to design, develop, and demonstrate the Theater Applications Launch on Notice (TALON), a miniaturized kinetic kill interceptor for deployment aboard the RAPTOR. The RAPTOR/TALON system is a technology program, the concept of which is intended as a Boost Phase Interceptor capable of destroying tactical ballistic...
Topics: DTIC Archive, BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION WASHINGTON DC, *BALLISTIC MISSILE INTERCEPT...
Summary AIT is a technology testbed program to develop component technologies that could be applied to current acquisition programs as part of a P31 program. The payoffs of AIT technology are substantial: providing technical solutions to theater missile defense interceptor capabilities for contingencies and against advanced threats not currently addressed by the TMD systems programs and reducing technical risks and costs in support of current acquisition programs through direct technology...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Cantrell, Mike, ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL, *ACQUISITION,...
This report is a summary of the general results and trends that emerged from the CARDE, CF-105 Assessment Study. Discussion of the actual work has been kept to a minimum in order to give a concise picture of the capabilities of the interceptor system. The results of the two years work have been reviewed, but emphasis has been placed on more recent work.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mitchell,R S, Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment Valcartier,...
The problem of allocation of defensive resources in nationwide defense against strategic nuclear attack is examined. Distinctive assumptions are that defenses are local, that attacking weapons directed at each target arrive sequentially (requiring that interceptors be allocated without knowledge of how many additional attacking weapons will follow), and that neither side can re-allocate its resources during an attack. Prim-Read deployments are defined and analyzed in detail. Effects of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Karr, Alan F, INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA PROGRAM ANALYSIS DIV,...
The design of ISI's SDI architecture simulator was intended to minimize the software development necessary to add new simulation models to the system or to refine the detail of existing ones. The key software design approach used to accomplish this goal was the modeling of each simulated defense system component by a software object called a 'technology module.' Each technology module provided a carefully defined abstract interface between the component model and the rest of the simulation...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Carter, Scott, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MARINA DEL REY INFORMATION SCIENCES...
This investigation of the Combat Air Patrol stationing problem analyzes the geometry of a hypothetical tactical scenario. Expressions to determine the following quantities are derived: (1) the minimum early warning radar detection range required for intercept feasibility; (2) intercept range as measured from the target area position when the interception begins from the CAP station; and (3) the minimum number of interceptors required to actively maintain one CAP station. The time variables most...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Jordao, Ernani B, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *COMBAT PATROLS, AIR...
This report describes the analysis of operational issues regarding the use of the new AIL AN/APS-144 podded radar on aircraft for counterdrug interdiction. It addressed several performance and operational issues associated with use of the radar for air-to-air intercept missions with targeting data provided by the Relocatable-Over-The-Horizon Radar (ROTHR) surveillance system, such as: Radar volume coverage; latency in the C(2) link; intercept geometries; and the effect of target and interceptor...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sveinsson, H., SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP ARLINGTON VA, *RADAR,...
The Army Lightweight Exo-Atmospheric Projectile (LEAP) will demonstrate hit to kill intercept performance against a non-boosting target during the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization's LEAP 2 space test at White Sands Missile Range early in 1992. The Army LEAP is the lightest weight interceptor currently developed. The LEAP 2 mission will fully validate the performance of this interceptor in a space environment. Data from the LEAP 2 mission will be used to complete validation of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Smith, Frank D.., AMERICAN INST OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS NEW YORK, *STRATEGIC...
This paper considers the interception of an exoatmospheric target with a ship-based interceptor which employs both midcourse and terminal guidance. Before and during the midcourse phase of flight the target is tracked with a ship-based radar. With target state estimates derived from the radar measurements, the interceptor is launched at the expected intercept point. The inevitable intercept point prediction errors are reduced during the interceptor's flight with midcourse guidance updates from...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Zarchan, Paul, CHARLES STARK DRAPER LAB INC CAMBRIDGE MA, *TARGETS, *EXOSPHERE,...
This paper describes technology breakthroughs in solid divert propulsion that provide extensive mission flexibility to theater missile defense (TMD) interceptors over previous solid propellant divert systems. TMD interceptors must cover large battlespaces to minimize the total number of launchers and deployed missiles. They must defend against a broad set of targets, from short to long ranges. Effectiveness against current and emerging TMD targets is ensured when a fully controllable Divert and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, West, Larry, GENCORP INC SACRAMENTO CA AEROJET DIV, *INTERCEPTORS, *SOLID PROPELLANT...
PEELS (Parametric Endo Exoatmospheric Lethality Simulation) calculations involve lethality determinations that typically include more than two parameters. A method of interpreting such multi-dimensional lethality results is presented using multiple regression techniques. A PEELS body to body calculation was run where the relative velocity, the strike angle, the impact point, and the overall density and length to diameter ratio of a cylindrical kill vehicle were varied. The mass of the kill...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Louie, Nikolai, BOEING NORTH AMERICAN CANOGA PARK CA ROCKETDYNE DIV, *KILL...
Computational fluid dynamics solutions have been performed to evaluate flow field separation effects resulting from the firing of a divert thruster on a biconic endoatmospheric interceptor. Comparisons are made with cold jet wind tunnel data in order to validate the prediction model which is then applied to hot jet flight conditions at a higher Mach number and momentum flux ratio. Scaling of the wind tunnel results to flight based on momentum flux ratio implies the existence of a large...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hudson, Douglas J., SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INC WAYNE PA, *FLOW FIELDS, *INTERCEPTORS,...
The defense resource allocater computer programs ERASE is described herein. Given a MaRV with Penaids attack scenario, the total radar resources available, and the number and characteristics of the defense interceptor, ERASE allocates the radar and interceptor resources on a continuing basis as the attack unfolds.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Keearns, L., Jaquette, S., MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB,...
The problem of allocation of defensive resources in nationwide defense against strategic nuclear attack is examined. Distinctive assumptions are that defenses are local, that attacking weapons directed at each target arrive sequentially (requiring that interceptors be allocated without knowledge of how many additional attacking weapons will follow), and that neither side can re-allocate its resources during an attack. Prim-Read deployments are defined and analyzed in detail. Effects of the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Karr, Alan F, INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA PROGRAM ANALYSIS DIV,...
The subject of this thesis is the system consisting of the engagements between attacking intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) reentry vehicles (RV) and a defending ballistic missile defense system. The thesis presents a brief overview of the actual system before proceeding with the development of a computer simulation model designed to aid analysis of the system. The primary language of the main program is SLAM; the supporting programs use FORTRAN V. The RV/Antiballistic missile (ABM)...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Critchlow, Carl L., AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF...
On January 28, 1991 the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command's (USASDC) Ground Based Interceptor (GBI) Project Office began a series of exoatmospheric intercepts of target re-entry vehicles with ground launched missiles. Space provides a unique environment to gather a large volume of pre- and post-impact data. This data supports not only the GBI Project but also is useful to many other USASDC and Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) Projects and Directorates. The test was conducted...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Katechis, J., AMERICAN CYANAMID CO WATERTOWN MA, *REENTRY VEHICLES, *GUIDED MISSILES,...
This PEA assesses the potential environmental impacts of the Air Drop Target System, from launch to intercept of the target. It also serves as a foundation from which future environmental documentation can be prepared, if needed. This PEA incorporates by reference the impact analysis for the refurbishment and production of the Hera target missile and the assessment of potential life cycle environmental impacts included in the Theater Missile Defense Hera Target Systems Environmental Assessment...
Topics: DTIC Archive, BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION WASHINGTON DC, *ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT,...
Current guidance and control systems for interceptor missiles use algorithins that require knowledge of the target. These systems are not robust to target maneuvers and disturbances. In this paper, we investigate the use of a novel controller named a Sliding Mode Controller (SMC). We consider two types of interceptors or kinetic energy kill vehicles (KEKVs): a ballistic missile and a cruise missile. Sliding mode controllers are robust, simple guidance and control algorithms which can be applied...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Shtessel, Yuri, ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL, *BALLISTIC...
The U.S. Army is upgrading its PATRIOT Air Defense Missile System with hit-to-kill technology. The improvements of the launching station, enagement control station and the addition of a hit-to-kill guided missile interceptor are managed under the PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Program, now three years into it's development contract. PAC-3 uses an extremely accurate on-board seeker and guidance system and an agile attitude control system to achieve a direct hit by the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Barnes, Robert S., QUANTUM RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL HUNTSVILLE AL, *AIR DEFENSE,...
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization proposes to install a launch cell simulator site adjacent to Boeing's National Defense (NMD) Ground-Based Interceptor Development and Integration Laboratory (GDIL), located at its Jetplex facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The purpose of the proposed action is to provide an interface between a launch cell simulator and its support equipment and other NMD hardware and software. This will enable the NMD program to improve interceptor missile design and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Hudson, Julia, ARMY SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND HUNTSVILLE AL, *ANTIMISSILE...
Finding guidance methods that efficiently and effectively handle the problem of directing the boost-phase portion of an exoatmospheric tactical ballistic missile interceptor is an active area of research. This paper presents a candidate method that is a hybrid combination of three algorithms. The chief method, used throughout the majority of the flight, is a minimum-time neighboring optimal control scheme. As demonstrated through Monte Carlo simulations, perturbations in the predicted intercept...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Lawton, John A., NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN DIV VA, *BALLISTIC MISSILE...
