Surface-Based Air Defense System Analysis (Artech House Radar Library)

This book provides a readable technical introduction to all aspects of surface-based air defense. The audience includes people engaged in the design of air defense systems or in air vehicle survivability analysis. Subjects covered include threat characterization, air defense processes, tactical environments, gunnery, surface-air missiles, modeling and simulation, and test and evaluation. Four chapters are devoted to Surface-Air Missiles providing coverage of mass properties, propulsion, aerodynamics, guidance, control, fuzes, and warheads. Over 120 figures illustrate concepts and example component and system analysis results from sample numerical problems.