The document discusses different types of missiles. It describes missiles as self-propelled precision weapons that can destroy targets like aircraft, satellites, ships, and tanks. The key types discussed are air-to-air missiles launched from aircraft to target other aircraft, air-to-surface missiles that attack land or sea targets, surface-to-air missiles launched from ground to target aircraft, and surface-to-surface missiles that strike land or sea targets over long ranges. The document also covers submarine-launched missiles, ballistic missiles that travel along an initial high trajectory, and cruise missiles that are aerodynamically guided over long distances with accuracy.
1. MISSILE
BY :- CHANDAN KUMAR SAH
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MEGHNAD SAHA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2. WHAT IS MISSILE
Missiles or guided missiles is a self-
propelled precision-guided munitions system.
It is used to destroy the target. Like, Aircrafts,
Satellites , Ship, Tanks , etc.
All known existing missiles are designed to be
propelled during powered flight by chemical
reactions inside a rocket engine, jet engine, or
other type of engine.
It consists mainly four systems, missile guidance,
flight systems, engine, and warhead.
3. TYPES OF MISSILES
Mode
Air to Air
Air to surface
Surface to Air
Surface to Surface
Submarine launched missiles
Path
• Cruise missiles
• Ballistic missiles
5. Air to Air
It is fired from an aircraft to destroy another
aircraft.
These are typically powered by one or more
rocket motors, usually solid fuelled but
sometimes liquid fuelled.
These are of two types
SRAAMs or WVRAAMs
MRAAMs or LRAAMs
6. Air to surface missile
Air to surface missile (ASM) is a missile
designed to be launched from military
aircraft at targets on land or sea.
Propulsion systems for air-to-surface missiles
are rocket motors, usually with shorter range,
and slower, longer-range jet engines.
Guidance for air-to-surface missile is typically
via laser guidance, infrared
guidance, optical guidance or via satellite
guidance signals
7. Surface to Air
It is designed to be
launched from the
ground to destroy
aircraft or other
missiles.
Maximum range of
SAM is 400 km(R-400).
In India Akash and
maitri is used as SAM..
8. Surface to surface
It is a missile designed to be launched from
the ground or the sea and strike targets on
land or at sea.
It has a range of up to 11200km which is
discovered by Chinese.
India has also these types of missiles like
AGNI series and PRITHVI series.
AGNI-V has a range of 5000-8000 km and it
is being upgraded up to 8000-12000 km.
9. SUBMARINES LAUNCHED MISSILES
It is a missile those are
designed to launched from
submarine.
It includes ballistic missiles
and cruise missiles, and
launched vertically.
K-4,K-5 & K-15 are being
used by Indian Navy.
BrahMos and Sagarika is
under development.
10. Ballistic Missile
A ballistic missile is
a missile only guided
during the relatively
brief initial powered
phase of flight.
Shorter range ballistic
missiles stay within
the Earth's atmosphere.
Long range or ICBM
ballistic missiles are
launched at a
steep, sub-orbital
flight trajectory.
11. Types of Ballistic Missiles
Name
BRBM
SRBM
MRBM
IRBM
ICBM
Range
Less than 100 km
1,000 km or less
1000 - 3500 km
3,500 - 5,500 km
More than 5500 km
12. Cruise Missile
Cruise missile is aerodynamically guided in
powered flight.
These are designed to deliver a
large warhead over long distances with
high accuracy.
BrahMos is the example of these type of
missiles, this is the fastest supersonic
missile with a speed of 2.8 mac.
GPS are used for target location.
Accuracy of these missiles are within
1 m.
13. Types of cruise missiles
Hypersonic(speed > 5 mac).
Supersonic(speed 1-5 mac).
Long range subsonic(speed 800 km/h,
rang, range: >1000 km).
Medium range subsonic ( range : less
than1000 km).
14. Global Positioning System
GPS is a technology that tracks anything on
the earth at any time in all weather
conditions.
It is used in missiles for location of the target.
For determining the exact location of target
it requires atleast 4 global positioning
satellites.
It gives great accuracy with exact three
dimensional position.
15. Command guidance
In this guidance
system missiles are
guided or tracked
by the launching
platform.
These are of two
types :-
Command to line of
sight(CLOS)
Command off line of
sight(COLOS)
16. Active homing
In active homing
there is a radar on
the missile to
provide a guidance
signal.
Typical electronics
devices keeps radar
on the target and
missile guides itself.
It is widely used in
Anti-Ship missiles or
for larger targets.
17. Passive homing
These types of missile uses
the electromagnetic
wave and heat which is
generated from target to
track and finally destroy .
It also referred as “heat
seeking” guidance.
It is used for anti-aircraft
role to track the heat of
jet engines.