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3 books on Airborne Missile Protection [PDF]
July 20, 2025 | 23 |
These books are covering airborne missile detection systems, infrared countermeasures, electronic jamming techniques, defensive maneuvering tactics, advanced warning technologies, aircraft armor enhancements and the latest innovations in airborne missile defense.
1. Force and Guardianship: A Legacy of Aerial Defense
2025 by Pasquale De Marco
This AI book in particular explains how Airborne Missile Protection systems (mounted on aircraft or drones) offer sufficient surveillance and maneuverability when intercepting ballistic missiles. These systems usually include flares (that blind the missile's infrared seeker, creating a brighter thermal signal), chaff (dipole reflectors) - create interference for radar-guided missiles, DIRCM (Directed Infrared Countermeasures) - a directed IR laser that "clogs" the missile's sensors and knocks it off course. An intercept missile from an aircraft is already an active interception system and it is extremely rare, expensive and difficult to use. Usually, such solutions are considered only for intercepting ballistic missiles from large aircraft (ABL project - Airborne Laser, or hypothetical airborne SM-3), but in real aviation, interference and false targets are used against MANPADS and air-to-air missiles.
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2. Handbook of Defence Electronics and Optronics: Fundamentals, Technologies and Systems
2018 by Anil K. Maini
This book describes many military electronics systems, in particular Electronic Warfare for aircraft and UAVs. For example, missile approach warning systems, which are of great importance since, according to statistics, more than 90% of all military aircraft losses are caused by passive IR-guided missiles. The key parameter of such systems is the detection range since it determines the time available for the pilot to take evasive maneuvers or initiate countermeasures. The detection range depends on the minimum required warning time, the speed of the aircraft, the speed of the approaching missile and the direction of attack. There are two common approaches to creating missile warning receivers (MWR). The first uses an active radar system, usually a pulse Doppler or a continuous-wave radar (CW radar). The second is based on the use of passive sensors, most often infrared (IR), which record thermal radiation from the exhaust of a rocket engine or heated surfaces of a missile. The book contains examples of such warning systems produced by Airbus and Boeing.
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3. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
2012 by National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives
This book in particular covers modern airborne interceptors (ABIs), also known as air-to-air direct kill systems (AHTK). These systems have already shown some potential in practice in some conflicts. But the main problem with ABIs, as with other proposed kinetic boost intercept systems, is the need to be close enough to the target (within about 50 km) for an interceptor with a given speed and a sufficiently maneuverable KKV to reach and successfully lock onto the accelerating booster before the end of the boost phase. ABI programs have existed in the past, but today only a few simple ABI systems based on existing interceptors remain in development. Examples in the book include the Network-Centric Airborne Missile Defense (NCADE) element, based on a modified AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missile and the Air-to-Home Direct Attack (ALHK) program, which uses a modified air-to-air version of the PAC-3 missile.
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1. Force and Guardianship: A Legacy of Aerial Defense
2025 by Pasquale De Marco
This AI book in particular explains how Airborne Missile Protection systems (mounted on aircraft or drones) offer sufficient surveillance and maneuverability when intercepting ballistic missiles. These systems usually include flares (that blind the missile's infrared seeker, creating a brighter thermal signal), chaff (dipole reflectors) - create interference for radar-guided missiles, DIRCM (Directed Infrared Countermeasures) - a directed IR laser that "clogs" the missile's sensors and knocks it off course. An intercept missile from an aircraft is already an active interception system and it is extremely rare, expensive and difficult to use. Usually, such solutions are considered only for intercepting ballistic missiles from large aircraft (ABL project - Airborne Laser, or hypothetical airborne SM-3), but in real aviation, interference and false targets are used against MANPADS and air-to-air missiles.
Download PDF
2. Handbook of Defence Electronics and Optronics: Fundamentals, Technologies and Systems
2018 by Anil K. Maini
This book describes many military electronics systems, in particular Electronic Warfare for aircraft and UAVs. For example, missile approach warning systems, which are of great importance since, according to statistics, more than 90% of all military aircraft losses are caused by passive IR-guided missiles. The key parameter of such systems is the detection range since it determines the time available for the pilot to take evasive maneuvers or initiate countermeasures. The detection range depends on the minimum required warning time, the speed of the aircraft, the speed of the approaching missile and the direction of attack. There are two common approaches to creating missile warning receivers (MWR). The first uses an active radar system, usually a pulse Doppler or a continuous-wave radar (CW radar). The second is based on the use of passive sensors, most often infrared (IR), which record thermal radiation from the exhaust of a rocket engine or heated surfaces of a missile. The book contains examples of such warning systems produced by Airbus and Boeing.
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3. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
2012 by National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives
This book in particular covers modern airborne interceptors (ABIs), also known as air-to-air direct kill systems (AHTK). These systems have already shown some potential in practice in some conflicts. But the main problem with ABIs, as with other proposed kinetic boost intercept systems, is the need to be close enough to the target (within about 50 km) for an interceptor with a given speed and a sufficiently maneuverable KKV to reach and successfully lock onto the accelerating booster before the end of the boost phase. ABI programs have existed in the past, but today only a few simple ABI systems based on existing interceptors remain in development. Examples in the book include the Network-Centric Airborne Missile Defense (NCADE) element, based on a modified AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missile and the Air-to-Home Direct Attack (ALHK) program, which uses a modified air-to-air version of the PAC-3 missile.
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2. Enter Book ID to the search box and press Enter
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* - note that for yellow books only preview pages are downloaded
