An investigation was conducted into the relative importance of aerodynamic parameters on air-to-air missile performance. Although the effect of drag on range is quite obvious, the effect of damping derivatives on the performance of a homing missile is quite subtle. A simplified method of generating analytical estimates of miss distance showed surprisingly good agreement with numerical trajectory computations. The resulting ranking of parameters in descending order of importance on both range and miss distance is: drag and lift curve slope; stability and control moment derivatives; control force derivative and nonlinear lift; damping derivatives and a nonlinear moment parameter. (Kursetz)
Missile aerodynamic sensitivity analysis
Eine Analyse der aerodynamischen Sensivitaet von Flugkoerpern
AIAA-Papers ; 1-10
1978
10 Seiten, 11 Bilder, 8 Tabellen, 6 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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