Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering

Preface

Balancing weapon and sensor system performance is important for achieving air and missile defense performance requirements against a target in an optimal sense. In today’s environment, this means meeting performance requirements while minimizing design, development, and operational costs over the lifecycle of a combat system. This book outlines a physics-based systems engineering approach for the design and development of a balanced air and missile defense system given a fixed set of target requirements. The inherent architecture of weapon and sensor systems plays a significant role in achieving a balanced approach for negating a target in both natural and electronic attack environments.

This book represents a synthesis of knowledge ...