This comprehensive two volume set features forty-five chapters of authoritative information that guides the reader from introductory through advanced concepts. Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance: An Introduction, Volume 1 contains 23 of the 34 chapters from the sixth edition. Nine chapters feature major enhancements. Advanced Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Volume 2 contains twenty-two chapters of which nine are completely new. The remaining chapters in this volume are revised versions of content sourced from previous editions of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance . Volume 1 Contents 1 Numerical Techniques 2 Fundamentals of Tactical Missile Guidance 3 Method of Adjoints and the Homing Loop 4 Noise Analysis 5 Covariance Analysis and the Homing Loop 6 Proportional Navigation and Miss Distance 7 Digital Fading Memory Noise Filters in the Homing Loop 8 Advanced Guidance Laws 9 Kalman Filters and the Homing Loop 10 Tactical Zones 11 Ballistic Target Properties 12 Extended Kalman Filtering and Ballistic Coefficient Estimation 13 Ballistic Target Challenges 14 Other Forms of Tactical Guidance 15 Strategic Considerations 16 Boosters 17 Lambert Guidance 18 Strategic Intercepts 19 Miscellaneous Topics 20 Multiple Targets 21 Representing Missile Airframe with Transfer Functions 22 Introduction to Flight Control Design 23 Three-Loop Autopilot Volume 2 Contents 1 Unstable Airframe and the Three Loop Autopilot 2 Flexible Body Dynamics 3 Modern Control and Autopilot Design 4 Advanced Adjoint Applications 5 Shaping Filters and Their Use in Miss Distance Analysis 6 Weaving Targets 7 Filtering and Weaving Targets 8 Filter Bank Approach to Weaving Target Problem 9 Predictor Corrector Guidance 10 Optimal Guidance Law to Minimize Interceptor Jerk 11 Use of Poisson/Singer Target Maneuver Model for Kalman Filter Design 12 Alternative Approaches to Guidance Law Development 13 Trajectory Shaping Guidance 14 Guidance Methods Against Stationary Targets 15 The Vertical-S Target Maneuver 16 Improving the Performance of a Tail-Controlled Missile at High Altitudes 17 Engagement Simulations in Three Dimensions 18 Smallest Possible Miss Distance in Radar Homing Missile 19 Comparison of Differential Game Guidance with Optimal Guidance 20 Boost Phase Filtering Options 21 Kinematics of Intercepting a Ballistic Target 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 Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering .