CONTROL OF REACTION-THRUST MISSILES,

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Abstract : Contents: Basic Elements of Guided Missiles; Aerodynamic Designs of Guided Missiles. The Effect of Missile Shape on Controllability; On-Board Missile Control System; Classification of Control and Guidance Systems; Flight Dynamics of Guided Missiles. Mecf6b of Homing Missiles onto Target and Possible Flight Trajectories; Homing Guidance; Infrared passive homing guidance, Active (Radar) homing system, Semiactive radar homing system, External Guidance System; Beam-rider guidance system, Command guidance systems, The television guidance system, Radionavigation guidance system, Autonomous Control Systems; Magnetometric guidance system, Inertial guidance system, Astronavigational guidance system, Radioastronavigational guidance systems, Combined Guidance Systems; Control Systems of Certain Guided Missiles. Structure and Organization of Firing Complexes; The twostage antiaircraft Nike missile for ground units, The single-stage antiaircraft ''Oerlikon'' missile for ground units, The Terrier, a twostage antiaircraft missile for Naval forces, Guided ballistic missiles Corporal, Redstone, and Thor.