Formulation of the Optimal Trajectory for an Air-Breathing Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile.

Abstract

The Air Breathing Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (ABMRAAM) represents developmental technology which incorporates both a rocket engine and a RAMJET engine. Such a missile uses proportional navigation guidance plus an additional trajectory loft command. This thesis examines the optimal trajectory, and hence the optimal lofting command, for an ABMRAAM. A numerical simulation of the missile is presented and the necessary conditions for the optimal trajectory are derived. From these conditions, the problem can be numerically solved for the optimal loft command.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA289267

Entities

People

  • Timothy Zadzora

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Breathing
  • Air Force
  • Birds
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Engines
  • Guidance
  • Mach Number
  • Navigation
  • Proportional Navigation
  • Ramjet Engines
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rockets
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Trajectories

Readers

  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security
  • Statistical inference.