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Evaluate Alternatives and Iterate the
System-of-Systems Design
• Mission / Scenario Update
/ System Definition
Initial Revised
• Weapon System
Trades / Eval Effectiveness / Eval
Requirements,
Trade Studies Initial Alt Baseline
and Sensitivity Reqs Concepts Selected
Analysis
• Launch Platform Initial Carriage / Iteration
Launch
Integration
Refine
Weapons
Req
Operations analysts
system-of-systems analysis
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Utilize Creative Skills
Use Creative Skills to Consider Broad Range of Alternatives
Ask Why? of Requirements / Constraints
Project into Future ( e.g., 5 – 15 years )
State-of-the-art ( SOTA )
Threat
Scenario / Tactics / Doctrine
Concepts
Technology Impact Forecast
Recognize and Distill the Most Important, Key Drivers
Develop Missile Concept that is Synergistic within a
System-of-Systems
Develop Synergistic / Balanced Combination of High
Leverage Subsystems / Technologies
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Identify, Quantify, and Balance the
Cost Effective Measures of Merit
Observables
Survivability Weight
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Start with a Good Baseline
I would have
used the wheel
as a baseline.
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Evaluate Prediction Methods for Uncertainty in
Accuracy and Precision
Precision
Accuracy
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Conduct Balanced, Unbiased Trade-offs
Propulsion
Aerodynamics
Structures Production
Seeker
Guidance and
Control
Warhead – Fuze
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Evaluate Many Alternatives
Note: Although all of the above are supersonic air-to-air missiles, they have different configuration geometry
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Search a Broad Design Solution Space
( Global Optimization vs Local Optimization )
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Evaluate and Refine as Often as Possible
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Provide Balanced Emphasis of
Analytical vs Experimental
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Use Design, Build, and Fly Process, for Feedback
Leading to Broader Knowledge / Understanding
Design Wisdom Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge? Where is the knowledge
we have lost in information?--T. S.
Prediction Satisfies No Eliot ( The Rock )
Customer Understanding Knowledge comes by taking things
Requirements? apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by
putting things together.--John A.
Morrison
Build Knowledge
We are drowning in information but
starved for knowledge.--John Naisbitt (
No Megatrends: Ten New Directions
Is it Producible? Transforming Our Lives )
Information
We learn wisdom from failure much
more than from success. We often
discover what will do, by finding out
Fly ( Test ) Failure / what will not do; and probably he who
Success never made a mistake never made a
discovery.--Samuel Smiles ( Self Help )
Test Results Satisfy
No Data
Customer Requirements
and Consistent with
Prediction?
Yes
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Consider Follow-on Consequences of Decisions -
Actions Have Consequences
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Keep Track of Assumptions and Develop
Real-Time Documentation
It’s finally
finished ! . . .
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Develop Good Documentation
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Effectively Utilize Conceptual Design Group Skills
- Maximize Strengths and Minimize Weaknesses
Conceptual Design – 2%
Preliminary Design – 8%
Other Than
Design –
Detail / 60%
Production (Test, Analysis,
Design – Configuration
30% Management, Software,
Program Management,
Integration,
Requirements,
etc.)
Source: Nicolai, L.M., “Designing a Better Engineer,” AIAA Aerospace America, April 1992
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Balance the Trade-off of
Importance Versus Priority
Production Programs /
Detail Design
SDD Programs / Advanced Programs /
Preliminary Design Conceptual Design
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Evaluate Alternatives and Iterate the
Configuration Design
Define Mission Requirements
Alt Mission
Establish Baseline
Alt Baseline
Aerodynamics
Propulsion
Trajectory
Meet No
Performance?
Yes
No
Measures of Merit and Constraints
Yes
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Configuration Sizing Conceptual Design
Guidelines: Aeromechanics
Configuration Sizing Parameter Aeromechanics Design Guideline
Body fineness ratio 5 < l / d < 25
Nose fineness ratio lN / d 2 if M > 1
Boattail or flare angle < 10 deg
Efficient cruise dynamic pressure q < 1,000 psf
Missile homing velocity VM / VT > 1.5
Ramjet combustion temperature > 4,000 F
Oblique shocks prior to inlet normal > 2 oblique shocks / compressions if M >
shock to satisfy MIL-E-5008B 3.0, > 3 shocks / compressions if M > 3.5
Inlet flow capture Shock on cowl lip at Mmax cruise
Ramjet Minimum cruise Mach number M > 1.2 x MInletStart , M > 1.2 MMaxThrust = Drag
Subsystems packaging Maximize available volume for fuel /
propellant
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Configuration Sizing Conceptual Design
Guidelines: Guidance & Control
Configuration Sizing Parameter G&C Design Guideline
Body bending frequency BB > 2 ACT
Trim control power />1
Neutral stability tail-body If low aspect ratio, b / d 2, c / d > 1
Stability & control cross coupling < 30%
Airframe time constant < 0.2 s
Missile maneuverability nM / nT > 3
Proportional guidance ratio 3 < N’ < 5
Target span resolution by seeker < btarget
Missile heading rate .M > .T
Missile turn radius RT M < RT T
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Wrap Up ( Part 1 of 2 )
Missile Design Is a Creative and Iterative Process that Includes
System integration considerations
Missile concepts and sizing
Technology assessment
Flight trajectory evaluation
Measures of merit evaluation
Cost / Performance / Risk Drivers Often “Locked In” During
Conceptual Design
Missile Design Is Best Conducted by a Diverse Group
Military customer mission / scenario definition
Operations analysts system-of-systems modeling
System integration engineers launch platform integration
Missile design engineers missile concept synthesis
Technical specialists technology assessment / technology roadmap
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Wrap Up ( Part 2 )
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System Design
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System Design ( continued )
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Aerodynamics
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Aerodynamics ( continued )
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Propulsion
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Propulsion ( continued )
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Materials and Heat Transfer ( continued )
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Guidance, Navigation, Control, and Sensors ( continued )
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Follow-up Communication
Thank you,
Gene Fleeman
Tactical Missile Design
E-mail: GeneFleeman@msn.com
Web Site: http://genefleeman.home.mindspring.com
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