Tactical Missile Design is available on-site at your facility as a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 day course.  The one and two-day short courses are also often held as public offerings in conjunction with missile system and missile technology conferences.  The options for an on-site course are:

1 day course on Missile System Integration. This course is oriented toward system integration engineers.  It covers the fundamentals of tactical missile system integration.  Provided are system-level assessments of the missile system integration considerations for the environment (storage, transportation, carriage), launch platform type (air, ground, naval) and constraints (geometry, weight, loading, launcher, safety, observables, survivability, avionics), and targeting (C4ISR, fire control system).  Videos illustrate missile sytem integration activities.  Attendees vote on the relative emphasis of the material to be presented. 

1 day course on Maximizing Missile Flight Performance. This course is oriented toward aerospace engineers.  It addresses the parameters/technologies that maximize missile performance, provides tools for conceptual design prediction of missile flight performance, and gives examples of flight performance for rocket-powered, ramjet-powered, and turbojet-powered missiles.  The emphasis is on physics-based equations, to better illustrate the most important, driving considerations and to provide a broad range of applicability.  Videos illustrate missile flight performance considerations.  Attendees vote on the relative emphasis of the material to be presented. 

1 day course on Tactical Missile Design. This general short course is oriented toward program managers, marketing personnel, systems analysts, engineers, and others working in the area of missile systems development.  The course presents the key elements of tactical missile conceptual design.  It addresses considerations in meeting missile performance, cost, and measures of merit requirements for conceptual design.  The methods presented are generally simple closed-form analytical expressions that are physics-based, to provide insight into the primary driving parameters.  Typical values of missile parameters and the characteristics of current operational missiles are discussed.  Also discussed are the enabling subsystems and technologies for tactical missiles and the current/projected state-of-the-art of tactical missiles.  Videos illustrate missile design considerations.  Attendees vote on the relative emphasis of the material to be presented. 

2 day course on Tactical Missile Design.  This is the most popular public offering course.  It combines the material of the 1 day Missile Systems Integration, the material of the 1 day Missile Flight Performance, and the material of the 1 day Tactical Missile Design courses into a 2 day course.  Videos illustrate missile design, performance, and integration.  The priority of the material to be covered is based on the interests of the class attendees.

3 day course on Tactical Missile Design. This is the most popular on-site course.  The course provides more in-depth material on tactical missile design, performance, and integration.  It includes more system sizing examples for rocket, ramjet, and turbojet powered missiles.  Each attendeee will design, build, and fly a small air-powered rocket.  The course covers approximately 60% of the material from the textbook Tactical Missile Design, 2^nd edition, plus new material devoped after publication of the textbook.  Videos illustrate missile design, performance, and integration.  The priority of the material to be covered is based on the interests of the class attendees.  As an on-site course, the course can address the customer's specific problems of interest through one-on-one and round table discussion.    

4 and 5 day courses on Tactical Missile Design. These comprehensive courses are tailored as customer on-site courses.  They have options of more in-depth presentation and discussion of the material from the textbook Tactical Missile Design, new material since the publication of the textbook, missile design case studies (selected by customer from a list of 6 prior missile design studies), classroom exercises, and one-on-one/round-table discussion.