An Integrated Fuzzy Guidance (IFG) law for a surface to air homing missile is introduced. The introduced approach is a modification of the well-known Proportional Navigation Guidance (PNG) law. The IFG law enables the missile to approach a high maneuvering target while trying to minimize control effort as well as miss distance in a two-stage flight. In the first stage, while the missile is far ...

Due to their potential for reducing the weapon size and efficiency, design methods for realizing hitto-kill capabilities in missile systems are of significant research interest in the missile flight control community. As defined in this paper, hit-tokill capability requires the missile to consistently achieve point-mass miss distances less than half the minimum dimension of the target. It has b...

Cruise missile can be classified as a smart bomb and also Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) due to its ability to move and manoeuvre by itself without a pilot. Cruise missile flies in constant velocity in cruising stage. Malaysia is one of the consumers of cruise missiles that are imported from other nations, which can have distinct geographic factors including their local terrains compared to Mala...

An application of reinforcement learning to a differential game is presented. The reinforcement learning system uses a recently developed algorithm, the residual form of advantage learning. The game is a Markov decision process (MDP) with continuous states and nonlinear dynamics. The game consists of two players, a missile and a plane; the missile pursues the plane and the plane evades the miss...

The material in this overview is drawn from selected abstracts that appear in the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ nuclear and missile databases. Transactions of nuclear and missile technologies, parts, and materials are listed according to the recipient country. Other developments are listed according to the country where the event or development took place. by Michael Barletta, Clay Bowen...

This study applies deep-reinforcement-learning algorithms to integrated guidance and control for three-dimensional, high-maneuverability missile-target interception. Dynamic environment, reward functions concerning multi-factors, agents based on the deep-deterministic-policy-gradient algorithm, action signals with pitch yaw fins as commands were constructed in research, which missile order inte...

The material in this overview is drawn from selected abstracts that appear in the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ nuclear and missile databases. Transactions of nuclear and missile technologies, parts, and materials are listed according to the recipient country. Other developments are listed according to the country where the event or development took place. by Michael Barletta, Clay Bowen...

The material in this overview is drawn from selected abstracts that appear in the Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ nuclear and missile databases. Transactions of nuclear and missile technologies, parts, and materials are listed according to the recipient country. Other developments are listed according to the country where the event or development took place. by Michael Barletta, Clay Bowen...

Aaron Karp is Senior Faculty Associate with the Graduate Programs in International Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the author of Ballistic Missile Proliferation (Oxford University Press, 1996) and numerous articles that have appeared in such journals as International Security, Survival, and International Studies Quarterly. LESSONS OF IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAMS FOR U...