This series of online webinars provide a system-level, integrated method for missile design, development, and system engineering.

The webinar series will start with an overview of missile design, development, and system engineering. The successive webinars will provide more in-depth information, addressing the specialized areas of missile aerodynamics, missile propulsion, missile weight, missile flight performance, missile guidance, missile lethality, missile system engineering, and missile development.

The prediction methods presented in the webinars are generally simple closed-form analytical expressions that are physics-based, to provide better insight into the primary driving parameters. Typical values of missile parameters and the characteristics of current operational missiles are discussed, along with the enabling subsystems, technologies, and the current/projected state-of-the-art. Videos will be used to illustrate missile system and subsystems development activities.

EUGENE L. FLEEMAN
Author
Missile Design and System Engineering

Eugene L. Fleeman has 50+ years of government, industry, academia, and consulting experience in the design and development of missile systems.  Formerly a manager of missile programs at the US Air Force Research Laboratory, Rockwell International, Boeing, and Georgia Tech, he is an international lecturer on missiles and the author of 200+ publications, including three textbooks.  His textbooks and short courses on Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering emphasize physics-based prediction methods, for enhanced insight, speed, and accuracy to the conceptual design process. 

Overview of Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering (4 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Key drivers in missile design, development, and system engineering
• Configuration sizing methods for aerodynamics, propulsion, weight, and flight trajectory
• Integration with aircraft, ground, and ship platforms
• Robustness, lethality, guidance, navigation, flight control, observables, survivability, safety, reliability, and cost
• Missile sizing examples
• Development of missile system, subsystems, and technology

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Missile Aerodynamics (4 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Key drivers in the missile aerodynamic design and system engineering process
• Critical tradeoffs, methods, and technologies in missile aerodynamic sizing to meet flight performance and other requirements such as configuration shaping for low observables
• Aerodynamic conceptual design prediction methods
• Launch platform-missile configuration integration
• Aerodynamic sizing examples to meet missile performance requirements
• Missile aerodynamics development process

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Missile Propulsion (4 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Conceptual Design Prediction Methods for turbojet, ramjet, and solid propellant rocket propulsion
• Key drivers in missile propulsion design, development, and system engineering
• Critical tradeoffs, methods, and technologies in missile propulsion system sizing to meet flight performance and other requirements such as observables, safety, reliability, and cost
• Launch platform-missile propulsion integration
• Propulsion sizing examples to meet missile performance requirements
• Missile propulsion system and technology development process

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Missile Weight (3 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Conceptual Design Methods for Predicting Missile System Weight and Subsystems Weight (e.g., Rocket Motor, Structure, Warhead, Power Supply, Radome)
• Benefits of a Light-Weight Missile (Production Cost, Firepower, Expeditionary Warfare, Mission Flexibility, Size, Logistics Cost, Observables)
• Missile Structure and Insulation Materials
• Missile Airframe Manufacturing Processes
• Design and System Engineering Tradeoffs That Impact Missile Weight
• New Technologies for Missile Weight Reduction

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Missile Flight Performance (4 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Approaches to Maximize Missile Flight Performance
• Effect of Launch Platform, Targeting, Fire Control System, Human Launch Operator, and Target on Missile Effective Flight Envelope
• Conceptual Design Methods for Predicting Missile Flight Range, Velocity, Time-to-Target, and Off-Boresight
• Equations of Motion and Drivers for Missile Flight Performance
• Alternative Flight Trajectories
• Role of Flight Performance in the Missile Design, Development, and System Engineering Process

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Missile Guidance (4 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Key Drivers in the Missile Guidance Design and System Engineering Process
• Critical Tradeoffs, Methods, and Technologies in Missile Guidance Selection and Sizing
• Conceptual Design Methods for Predicting Missile Guidance
• Targeting System, Launch Platform, and Missile Guidance Integration
• Missile Guidance Sizing Examples
• Missile Guidance System and Technology Development Process

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Missile Lethality (3 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Types of Warheads for Different Launch Platforms and Targets
• Warhead Components
• Prediction of Warhead Lethal Radius
• Target Vulnerability Modeling
• Minimizing Collateral Damage
• Optimizing Fuzing Standoff Distance, Forward Look Angle, and Time Delay

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Missile System Engineering (4 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Missile System Types and Missions
• Missile System Measures of Merit Such as Accuracy, Lethality, Collateral, Survivability, Safety, Reliability, and Cost
• Missile System Requirements Definition (Performance, Cost, Risk) and System Requirements Flow-Down to Subsystem Requirements
• Launch Platform / Fire Control Integration
• Environmental Requirements (e.g., solar radiation, ambient temperature, humidity, rain rate, dust, vibration, shock)
• Missile System Engineering Considerations in Development Testing

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Missile Development (2 hours)

Learning Objectives

• Missile Development Activities / Funding / Time Frame
• Missile History / Follow-on Programs
• Missile Cost, Risk, and Performance Tradeoffs
• Missile Tests / Integration
• Missile State-of-the-Art Advancements
• New Technologies for Missiles

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The course is oriented towards the needs of missile engineers, system engineers, system analysts, marketing personnel, program managers, university professors, and others working in the area of missile systems and missile technology development. Attendees will gain an understanding of missile design prediction, missile technologies, launch platform integration, missile system measures of merit, and the missile system development process.

Live Webinar

For more information about the event, please contact +65 8363 3065 or email marketing@k2binternational.com