Fundamentals of guidance Basic results in interception and avoidance Taxonomy of guidance laws, command and booming guidance, classical guidance laws Comparative study of guidance laws from the point of view of time, missdistance, launch boundaries, control effort and implementation difficulties. Basic concepts of launch vehicle guidance, Explicit and Implicit guidance, Flat Earth guidance, Perturbation guidance, Velocity to be gained guidance concept, Delta guidance, Q guidance, Cross product steering, linear perturbation guidance, Open loop and Closed loop guidance

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