A. J. Minnich,1 G. Chen,2,* S. Mansoor,3 and B. S. Yilbas3 1Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91106, USA 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabi...

Aaron Karp is Senior Faculty Associate with the Graduate Programs in International Studies at Old Dominion University and Assistant Professor at the US Armed Forces Staff College. He is the author of Ballistic Missile Proliferation: The Politics and Technics (Oxford University Press, 1996). This essay is based on a presentation at the United Nations Regional Disarmament Meeting in the Asia-Paci...

Tracking a ballistic missile in its reentry phase is one of the missile defence challenges as these reentry vehicles penetrate with large aerodynamic loads and sudden decelerations from exoatmospheric to endoatmospheric phase. With the advent of anti-ballistic missiles, the main goal of missile defence systems is to track the reentry vehicle to locate them precisely for allowing midair altitude...

in this paper a new guidance technique for ballistic missiles and launch vehicles is proposed. generally the lambert guidance is used to generate missile nominal (correlated) parameters through powered flight to put it in a ballistic flight path. because of uncertainties and undesired factors, the nominal position and velocity obtained by lambert technique need to be followed in actual flight. ...

In this paper, we investigate two topics related to mitigating the effect of radar bias in ballistic missile tracking applications. We determine the absolute bias between two radars in polar coordinates when their relative bias is given in rectangular coordinates. Using this result, we then obtain the optimized steady-state filter to handle the random bias.

ted to allow efficient ballistic missiles , the paper describes a recently developed ted estimation/guidance design paradigm n several innovative concepts that provides satisfactory homing performance against ly maneuvering targets. The new paradigm veloped and tested first by using a simplified constant speed interception scenario model. paper the integrated estimation/guidance m is validated ...

The purpose of this research was to study forward-spatter misting patterns by shooting a firearm through chamber blood encased in ballistic gel determine if there is relationship between bloodstain pattern size as function distance and orientation. There lack on forward spatter, travelling the direction bullet, most studies focus back opposite bullet. A bullet fired containing chamber, depositi...

Current study reported a facile method to investigate the effects of stacking sequence layers of hybrid composite materials on ballistic energy absorption by running the ballistic test at the high velocity ballistic impact conditions. The velocity and absorbed energy were accordingly calculated as well. The specimens were fabricated from Kevlar, carbon, and glass woven fabrics and resin and wer...