• Weapon Systems, Semester 3, position 2

Goal of subject is to achieve student in detail contents of missiles subsystems its integration and key performances of flight and terminal phase, functions. Goal of knowledge’s are directed on the technology roll and influences on the particular quality and quantity of missiles performances. Missile is considered as the flight vehicle and ammunition for the different payload purposes and defense missions . Student developing detailed skills and knowledge for design, analyzes, syntheses of missiles and rockets and about its advanced technology applications on the component design its research and methodology of calculations and development. Goal of subject is to achieve student knowledge in two basic launcher equipment Sub systems. Sub systems of equipment and devices for shooting and missiles positioning and launching, and subsystems of equipment and devices for other defense and military integrated functions available on the self-propelled weapon launcher. Student through practical project research of concept and component integration realize knowledge of software and hardware integration on the launcher and new technologies implementation on the self propelled or portable weapon missile launching Systems.

Student achieve level of individual designer of tactical missiles and other jobs and purposes of missile syntheses .Also, student is accomplished for the analyzes and syntheses of all levels and types in the missile and ammunition rocket technologies by tools of applied mechanics and software analyzes of integrative rocket and missile technologies and performances .Parametric composition of missile flight mechanics, special ballistics and rocket propulsion propellants performances and other interdisciplinary integration selection and estimations, is comprehension output of subject. Student realizes skills and knowledge for individual integrating of launcher weapon, their conceptual solutions and critical thinking and opinion about advantages for applied Systems and sub systems. Also launcher and its equipment is integrative design system test for knowledge of missile system design and defense functions. Student through practical selections of functions and its solutions gets knowledge of compromises in technology possibilities and threshold performances of practical use and its requirements.

Role of missiles in military use. Missiles configuration. The concept of missile components dispositions. Components and subassemblies, their structural and functional connection, especially in guided, especially in unguided missiles. Determination of missile initial mass and solid rocket motor performances. Missile propulsion integration. Aerodynamic configurations of guided and unguided missiles. Aerodynamic design. Analyzes of guidance laws and their influence on guided missile design. Dynamic performances of the missile. Fundamentals of autopilot and role in guided missile design. Missile control systems. Missile loads during flight. Structure and structure materials of unguided and guided missiles. Missile component stress analyses. Content of subsystems for MLRS, AT, AD, BM, launchers mechanisms integrated for missiles launching, and shooting, devices functional and equipment design. Equipment for launching stability, energy supply and other conditions for functional and environmental uses of defense and functional missiles weapon technology. Launchers stability analysis and interactions with missiles.

1. Missiles projectiles preliminary design guided and unguided 2. Concept of missile tactical mission, preliminary design of requirements and performances 3. Seminar case study of missile or rocket preliminary design for new missile of chosen mission, presentation of solution. 4. Critical technology in project designs a consulting for solutions optimization. 5. Project solution idea. 6. Kinematics and dynamics of launching mechanisms in joint work with system integration concept, elevation mechanism, stabilization mech. direction mechan., fire mech. and launching forces estimation. 7. Presentation of joint launcher project and its substitution with critical estimations of components, and technology.

No requirements.

1. Milos Markovic: Handout - Missile design and launchers, Belgrade 2020. 2. Vucurovic O.: Basis of missile design, University of Belgrade, Mechanical engineering, 2003. 3. Vucurovic O.: Design issues of launching devices, University of Belgrade, Mechanical engineering, 2006. 4. Milinovic M.: Fundamentals of Rocket and Launcher Design - Chapter in Launcher Design, University of Belgrade, Mechanical engineering, 2002. 5. Markovic, М., Jevtic, D., Djurovic, R., Milicic, L.: Missile design and launchers - practicum, University of Belgrade, Mechanical engineering, 2023, ISBN: 978-86-6060-160-7.

Total assigned hours: 75

New material: 20
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 10

Auditory exercises: 10
Laboratory exercises: 10
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 10
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 0
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 0
Review and grading of lab reports: 2
Review and grading of seminar papers: 0
Review and grading of the project: 10
Test: 0
Test: 0
Final exam: 3

Activity during lectures: 10
Test/test: 0
Laboratory practice: 30
Calculation tasks: 0
Seminar paper: 0
Project: 30
Final exam: 30
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 35

E. Fleeman, Missile design and system engineering. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2012.; Zarchan P.: Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Volume 239, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, 2012.; Krasnov N.F. et al.: Rocket aerodynamics, NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, June 1971; Siouris G. M.: Missile Guidance and Control Systems, Springer, 2004.; Архангельский И. И.: ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ ЗЕНИТНЫХ УПРАВЛЯЕМЫХ РАКЕТ, МОСКВА, Издательство МАИ 2001.