In an earlier study, presented at the 3 rd EUCASS [1], an innovative guidance strategy was outlined by integrating the design of a multiple model adaptive estimator and a differential game based guidance law. Such strategy indicated two potential breakthroughs in the interception of randomly maneuvering targets in Ballistic Missile Defense. Further studies indicated that while the differential ...

Differential Game Based Guidance Law for High Angle of Attack Missiles By P. K. Menon and G.B. Chatterji Optimal Synthesis 450 San Antonio Road, Suite 53 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Abstract A nonlinear differential game theoretic intercept guidance law for short range missiles is derived. Differential geometric transformations are used to convert the nonlinear missile and the target models into a conv...

Differential Game Based Guidance Law for High Angle of Attack Missiles By P. K. Menon and G.B. Chatterji Optimal Synthesis 450 San Antonio Road, Suite 53 Palo Alto, CA 94303 Abstract A nonlinear differential game theoretic intercept guidance law for short range missiles is derived. Differential geometric transformations are used to convert the nonlinear missile and the target models into a conv...

In July 1995, the world saw the most serious confrontation between China and Taiwan since the cease-fire between two sides in the late 1950s. After the United States decided to issue visa to Taiwan’s President Lee Teng-hui to allow him to make a “private” visit to his alma mater, Cornell University, the Chinese government responded immediately by announcing a series of missile tests and militar...

There are several applications that require long wavelength, large, uniform, reproducible, low cost, low 1/f noise, low power dissipation, and radiation hard infrared (IR) focal plane arrays (FPAs). For example, the absorption lines of many gas molecules, such as ozone, water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide occur in the wavelength region from 3 to 18 pm. Thus, IR imaging sys...

1. DU and the evolution of hard target weapons 73 2. Properties, advantages and hazards of DU for military use 74 3. New weapons technology known and suspected DU applications 76 4. DU armour-piercing ammunition and missiles 81 5. Smart or guided bombs 84 6. Hard target cruise missiles 86 Figure 1 Hard Target Guided Weapons in 2001 with dense metal warheads 89 7. Other suspected weapons systems...

A great convergence of cartography, secrecy, and power occurred during the Cold War. In the American case, a complex series of interactions between secret and classified programs and institutions and their publicly accessible counterparts accomplished both traditional and novel objectives of military geographic intelligence. This process also yielded the World Geodetic System, a masscentered “f...

In this paper the track initiation problem is formulated as multiple composite hypothesis testing using maximum likelihood estimation with probabilistic data association (ML-PDA), an algorithm known to work under very low SNR conditions. This algorithm does not have to make a decision as to which measurement is target originated. The hypothesis testing is based on the minimum description length...