Performance and Cost Analysis of a Command-Guided Ballistic Missile Radar,

摘要

This report addresses many of the technical questions associated with developing and implementing a command-guided ballistic rocket using a microwave or millimeter radar to provide position and roll information for the rocket. The basic feasibility of an X-band radar for providing the rocket position and roll data was established in the first phase of this design study. The second phase of the investigation concentrated on providing additional depth in the treatment of the missile retroreflector configurations, more detailed performance and cost trade-offs among the beacon and passive reflector-equipped missile concepts, missile beacon transponder design tradeoffs and a recommended design configuration, and an analytical examination of multiple rocket tracking system concepts and tracking radar requirements. (Author)