Tactical Missile Design

Tactical Missile Design - Eugene L. Fleeman

Tactical Missile Design” by Eugene L. Fleeman is a specialised aerospace engineering textbook focused on the principles, processes and key considerations involved in designing tactical missiles. It was the first dedicated textbook on this subject published in decades and is widely used by aerospace engineering students, missile design engineers and programme managers as an integrated resource on how tactical missile systems are conceived and developed.

The book opens with a discussion of the fundamental drivers in the missile design process, including how mission requirements and operational goals influence design choices, and then moves into detailed chapters on the aerodynamic, propulsion, weight and flight performance considerations that determine missile behaviour in real‑world conditions. It emphasises physics‑based analytical expressions that help readers understand how design parameters such as body shape, control surfaces, propulsion type and stability affect performance.