EVALUATION OF FIGHTER EVASIVE MANEUVERS AGAINST PROPORTIONAL NAVIGATION MISSILES

Keywords: Proportional Navigation, Evasive Maneuvers, Aerodynamic Forces.

In thesis, evasive maneuvers of a fighter against a missile employing proportional navigation are measured. Flight kinematics and flight dynamics are represented in order to constitute a basis for the fighter model. Notable evasive maneuvers performed by a fighter aircraft against proportional navigation missiles in an air combat are extracted, implemented visually simulated and performance analyses of these maneuvers are made with respect to different initial parameters. The terminal phase of the encounter is taken into consideration. An extended point-mass aircraft model including orientation kinematics is used to obtain realistic results. After gathering performance analysis results for various missileaircraft encounter scenarios, we put forward an idea about which maneuver will provide for an effective evasion from the guided missiles.

The parameters used for the fighter models represent generic fighter aircraft with high-g capability.