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

4. Target
• Anti-tank missile
• Anti-ship missile
• Anti-aircraft missile
• Anti-satellite missile

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.