MISSILE TECHNOLOGY

By-YOGESH KR. GARG

ME, IIIrd yr,
M-122-2K11

Basics
Definition
Powered guided munition
Parts
Guidance
Flight system
Engine
Warhead

PRINCIPLE
TRACKING
GUIDANCE
FLIGHT

SOLID
LIQUID
HYBRID
AIR-BREATHING

Guidance and Control Section

Types of Missiles
1. Conventional
guided missiles

Air-to-air missile
Air-to-surface missile
Anti-ballistic missile
Anti-tank guided
missile
Surface-to-air missile
Surface-to-surface
missile

2. Cruise missiles

3. Ballistic missiles
Short Range Ballistic
Missile
Range < 1000 Km

Medium Range
Ballistic Missile
Range 1000 3000 Km

Intermediate Range
Ballistic Missile
Range 3000 5500 Km

Intercontinental
Ballistic Missile
Range > 5500 Km

Type

Air to Air Missile

Place of origin

India

Production history

Air to air
(Astra)

Manufacturer

DRDO

Produced

Pre Production/Testing [1]

Specifications

Weight

154 kg

Length

3570 mm

Diameter

178 mm

15 kg (33 lb) HE fragmentation

Warhead
directional warhead
Detonation
Radar proximity fuze
mechanism

Engine

Solid Fuel Rocket

Wingspan

254 mm

Operational
80-110 km[2][3]
range
Flight ceiling

66,000 ft

Speed

Mach 4 + (4780 Km/h)

Guidance

Inertial, mid-course update and

system

terminal active radar homing (15 km)

Su-30MKI,
HAL Tejas,
Launch
PAK FA / Sukhoi/HAL FGFA,
platform
Mirage 2000 and
Mig-29.

Air-ground (Maverick)

Surface-to-air (Trishul)

Surface to surface (AGNI III)

Specifications
Weight
Length
Diameter
Warhead
Engine
Operational
Range
Flight
altitude
Speed

50,000 kg
17 m
2.0 m
Strategic nuclear (15 KT to 250 KT), conventional
HE-unitary, penetration, sub-munitions, incendiary or
fuel air explosives
Two stage solid propellant engine
3500 km - 5500 km
> 90 km

5-6 km/s (Agni-II)

Ring Laser Gyro- INS (Inertial Navigation System),
Guidance
optionally augmented by GPS terminal guidance with
System
possible radar scene correlation
Launch
8 x 8 TELAR (Transporter erector launcher) Rail
Platform
Mobile Launcher

Guidance Systems
Go to target systems (GOT)
Remote

LOS (Line of sight)

Off the LOS
Beam-riding
Homing active, semi-active, passive, retransmission
Infrared
Radar
TV

Go to Location in Space systems(GOLIS)

Inertial, Celestial, Terrestrial, Magnetic. Satellite

Terrestrial Navigation
Terrain Contour Matching, or TERCOM
It is a navigation system used primarily by cruise
missiles. It uses a pre-recorded contour map of the terrain
that is compared to measurements made during flight by
an on-board radar altimeter

DSMAC (Digital Scene-Mapping Area

Correlator)
Modern systems can store numerous images of a target
as seen from different directions, and often the imagery
can be calculated using image synthesis techniques.. The
combination of these technologies produced the Digital
Scene-Mapping Area Correlator (DSMAC).

INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM

EMPLOYS ACCELEROMETERS TO CALCULATE DISTANCE FROM
TARGET AND LAUNCH POINT SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE MISSILE IS
CONTROLLED BY SELF-CONTAINED AUTOMATIC DEVICES CALLED
ACCELEROMETERS

Global Positioning Satellite

Another way to navigate a cruise missile is

by using a satellite positioning system, such
as GPS
Satellite navigation systems are precise
and cheap

Active homing
In the active
homing system,
target illumination
is supplied by a
component carried
in the missile, such
as a radar
transmitter. The
radar signals
transmitted from
the missile are
reflected off the
target back to the
receiver in the
missile.

Passive homing
In the passive
homing system, the
directing
intelligence is
received from the
target. Examples of
passive homing
include homing on
a source of infrared
rays (such as the
hot exhaust of jet
aircraft) or radar
signal

Semi-active homing
In the semi
active homing
system, the
missile gets its
target
illumination
from an external
source, such as a
transmitter
carried in the
launching
aircraft.

Command to Line-of-sight

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Wikipedia.com
Howstuffworks.com
Missilesthreat.com

www.aerospaceweb.org/.../ missiles
www.wa3key.com

Thank You
ANY QUERY