Missile Design, Development and Systems Training:

Missile Design, Development, and Systems Training Course with Hands-on Exercises (Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live)

This four-day Missile Design, Development, and Systems Training Workshop course is recommended for those who wish to broaden their understanding of missiles. Conceptual design methods are presented for the major subsystems and for predicting performance, cost, risk, and launch platform integration.

Examples are shown of subsystem and system development test activities. Configuration sizing examples include rocket-powered, ramjet-powered, and turbo-jet-powered missiles as well as guided bombs. The Missile Design, Development and Systems Training Workshop course presents typical characteristics of missiles, the historical development of subsystems, enabling technologies, and the state-of-the-art.

Over seventy videos illustrate missile development activities and performance. Each attendee will design, build, and fly a small air-powered rocket based on the analysis and prediction methods of the course. This Missile Design, Development, and Systems Training Workshop course is based on the instructor’s 880-page AIAA textbook Missile Design and System Engineering, which includes free software.

What’s Included?

• 4 days of Missile Design, Development, and Systems Training with an expert instructor
• Missile Design, Development, and Systems Electronic Course Guide
• Certificate of Completion
• 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

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Customize It:

• We can adapt this Missile Design, Development, and Systems Training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
• If you are familiar with some aspects of this ELINT Interception and Analysis course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
• We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Missile Design, Development, and Systems course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
• If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Missile Design, Development, and Systems Training course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.

Audience/Target Group:

The target audience for this training course:

• This Missile Design, Development and Systems Workshop course is oriented toward the needs of missile engineers, systems engineers, analysts, marketing personnel, program managers, university professors, and others working in the area of missile systems and technology development. Attendees will gain an understanding of missile design, missile technologies, launch platform integration, missile system measures of merit, and the missile system development process

Objectives:

Upon completing this training Missile Design, Development, and Systems Workshop course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

• Key drivers in design, development, and system engineering.
• Configuration sizing methods for aerodynamics, propulsion, weight, and flight trajectory.
• Integration with aircraft, ground, and ship platforms.
• Robustness, lethality, guidance, navigation, flight control, observables, survivability, safety, reliability, and cost.
• Missile sizing examples.
• Development of missile systems, subsystems, and technology.

Course Syllabus:

• Introduction/Drivers in Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering: Overview of the missile design process. Examples of system integration. Types of missiles. Configuration sizing parameters. Conceptual design process. Examples of mission requirements. Example of sensitivity analysis.
• Aerodynamics in Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering: Optimizing missile aerodynamics. Shapes for low observables. Configuration layout options. Selecting flight control alternatives. Wing and tail sizing. Predicting normal force, drag, pitching moment, stability, flight control effectiveness, lift-to-drag ratio, and hinge moment. Skid-to-turn, bank-to-turn, rolling airframe, and divert maneuvering alternatives.
• Propulsion in Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering: Turbojet, ramjet, scramjet, ducted rocket, and rocket specific impulse, range, and thrust. Booster and inlet alternatives. High-density fuels. Performance, explosive safety, toxicity, and observables tradeoffs. Propellant grain cross-section trade-offs. Thrust magnitude control. Propellant aging prediction. Combustion instability. Motor case and nozzle materials.
• Weight in Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering: Weight prediction and minimizing weight. How to size subsystems to meet flight performance requirements. Structure factor of safety. Structure concepts and manufacturing processes. Airframe materials. Structure loads prediction. Airframe and rocket motor case design. Aerodynamic heating prediction and insulation trades. Thermal stress. Seeker dome materials and sizing. Power supply and actuator sizing.
• Flight Performance in Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering: Flight envelope limitations. Aerodynamic sizing-equations of motion. Accuracy of simplified equations of motion. Maximizing missile flight performance. Benefits of flight trajectory shaping. Flight performance prediction of boost, climb, cruise, coast, steady descent, ballistic, maneuvering, divert, and homing flight.
• Other Missile Measures of Merit and Launch Platform Integration/System Engineering: Robustness in adverse weather. Seeker, navigation, data link, and sensor alternatives. Seeker range prediction. Imaging versus scanning infrared seekers. Semi-active laser seeker. Mid-wave versus long wave infrared seeker. Gimbaled versus strap-down seekers. Automatic target recognition. Millimeter wave versus centimeter wave seekers. Radar traveling wave tube versus solid state amplifier. Multi-mode seekers. GPS/INS integration. Counter-countermeasures. Electromagnetic compatibility. Warhead alternatives and lethality prediction. Collateral damage. Fuzing alternatives and requirements for fuze angle and time delay. Missile guidance laws. Proportional guidance accuracy prediction. Sources of miss distance. Missile time constant and maneuverability for small miss distance. Radome error slope and filtering. Radar cross-section and infrared signature prediction. Survivability considerations. Insensitive munition requirements. Reliability. Cost drivers of schedule, weight, learning curve, type of subsystems, and parts count. EMD and production cost prediction. Designing within launch platform constraints. Basing and logistics. Standard launchers for ships, submarines, aircraft, and ground vehicles. Internal versus external carriage. Shipping, storage, carriage, and launch considerations. Launch platform and fire control system interfaces. Comparison of active homing, passive homing, semi-active homing, command, and multi-mode guidance. Climatic environment requirements. Cold and solar environment temperature prediction for missile subsystems.
• Missile Sizing Examples and Sizing Tools: Baseline turbojet, ramjet, rocket, and guided bomb. Trade-offs for extended range rocket. Sizing for enhanced maneuverability. Lofted range prediction. Ramjet sizing for range robustness. Fuel alternatives. Turbojet sizing for maximum range. Guided bomb range prediction. Computer-aided sizing tools for conceptual design. Design, build, and fly competition. Pareto, house of quality, and design of experiment analysis.
• Missile Development Process: Design validation/technology development process. Developing a technology roadmap. History of transformational technologies. Cost, risk, and performance tradeoffs. New missile follow-on projections. Examples of development tests and facilities. Missile simulation. Example of technology demonstration flight envelope. New technologies for missiles.

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