The relative merits of intercept and pure pursuit homing are investigated by comparing the expected flight times to a nonmaneuvering target. The analysis is performed for the initial target heading angle uniformly distributed with arbitrary mean and variance. Two specific examples illustrate that intercept homing holds little statistical advantage over pure pursuit homing except when the speed advantage of the missile is very small.


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    Title :

    A comparison of expected flight times for intercept and pure pursuit missiles


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    Publication date :

    1969-07-01


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    282763 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English