Gain an introduction to tactical missile design, evaluation, development, and system integration. Build a foundation in conceptual design methods for rocket, ramjet, and turbojet-powered baseline missiles. Develop your knowledge in prediction methods required in configuration sizing for aerodynamics, propulsion, weight, and flight performance parameters. Study prediction methods for missile evaluation measures of merit such as robustness, lethality, miss distance, observables, survivability, and cost. Gain insight into primary driving parameters using simple, closed-form, analytical, and physics-based equations. Discover tactical missile development processes and required facilities for missile development. Consider system integration issues such as environment, launch platform type and constraints, and targeting. Typical values of missile parameters, characteristics of current operational missiles, enabling subsystems and technologies of tactical missiles, and the current/projected state-of-the-art are also presented.

Topics Include:
• Key drivers in the design process
• Tactical missile design aerodynamic, propulsion and weight considerations
• Flight performance
• Measures of merit
• Launch platform integration
• Sizing examples
• Development process