Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering

Welcome to the Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering web site!

Missiles provide the essential accuracy and standoff range capabilities that are of paramount importance in modern warfare.  Technologies for missiles are rapidly emerging, resulting in the frequent introduction of new missile systems.  The capability to meet the essential requirements for the performance, cost, risk, and launch platform integration of missile systems is driven by missile design, development, and system engineering.

New Textbook

My newest (year 2022) textbook is Missile Design Guide.  It is an update over my previous (year 2012) textbook.  Missile Design Guide has extensive use of simple closed-form, physics-based analytical prediction expressions - to provide better insight into the primary driving system parameters.  Emphasis was given to ease of use.  The handbook consists of full color figures with self-standing graphs, tables, charts, and diagrams.  It is aimed toward the needs of missile engineers, system engineers, system analysts, program managers, aerospace engineering students, and professors.  Readers have a quick reference for missile design, missile technologies, launch platform integration, targeting, fire control integration, missile system measures of merit, and the missile system development process.

The new textbook is available through a number of web sites, including AIAA and Amazon.com,.

What You Can Learn from My Textbook

• Key drivers in the missile design, development, and system engineering process

• Critical trade-offs, prediction methods and technologies in aerodynamic, propulsion, structure, seeker, warhead, fuzing and subsystems sizing to meet flight performance and other requirements

• Launch platform-missile integration

• Robustness, lethality, guidance, navigation & control, accuracy, observables, survivability, safety, reliability and cost considerations

• Sizing examples for missile systems and missile technologies

• Missile system and missile technology development process