Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance contains twenty-two chapters of which chapters one through nine are completely new. The remaining chapters in this volume are updated from previous editions of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance , a Summerfield Book Award winner. A separate companion volume, Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction, Seventh Edition, Volume 1 (978-1-62410-537-1)contains 23 of the 34 chapters that appeared previously in the sixth edition and features major updates to nine of these 23 chapters. Contents Chapter 1 Unstable Airframe and the Three-Loop Autopilot Chapter 2 Flexible Body Dynamics Chapter 3 Modern Control and Autopilot Design Chapter 4 Advanced Adjoint Applications Chapter 5 Shaping Filters and Their Use in Miss Distance Analysis Chapter 6 Weaving Targets Chapter 7 Filtering and Weaving Targets Chapter 8 Filter Bank Approach to Weaving Target Problem Chapter 9 Predictor-Corrector Guidance Chapter 10 Optimal Guidance Law to Minimize Interceptor Jerk Chapter 11 Use of Poisson/Singer Target Maneuver Model for Kalman Filter Design Chapter 12 Alternative Approaches to Guidance Law Development Chapter 13 Trajectory Shaping Guidance Chapter 14 Guidance Methods Against Stationary Targets Chapter 15 The Vertical-S Target Maneuver Chapter 16 Improving the Performance of a Tail-Controlled Missile at High Altitudes Chapter 17 Engagement Simulations in Three Dimensions Chapter 18 Smallest Possible Miss Distance for a Radar Homing Missile Chapter 19 Comparison of Differential Game Guidance with Optimal Guidance Chapter 20 Boost-Phase Filtering Options Chapter 21 Kinematics of Intercepting a Ballistic Target Chapter 22 Kill Vehicle Guidance and Control Sizing for Boost-Phase Intercept Paul Zarchan holds a BSEE from City College of New York and a MSEE from Columbia University. He has more than 40 years of experience in missile guidance and control. He worked as principal engineer for Raytheon, as senior research engineer with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, as a principal member of the technical staff at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, and as a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, working on problems related to missile defense. He is also the author of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction, Volume 1 and Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering, Fourth Edition.