Textbooks

Availability

All books are published by, and are available from the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA) but are also available from commercial book sellers such as Amazon, Waterstones etc.

Weaponeering for the Warfighter

The latest textbook to be published (September 2021) is titled “Weaponeering for the Warfighter” and presents the full breadth of the subject with a limited mathematical depth than the more comprehensive books described below.

Contents

Chapter 1    Overview of Weaponeering and Weapon Effectiveness

Chapter 2    Introduction to Statistical Methods                                     

Chapter 3    Weapon Trajectory                      

Chapter 4    Delivery Accuracy: Overview     

Chapter 5    Accuracy of GPS/INS Guided Munitions                         

Chapter 6    Introduction to Vulnerability and Effectiveness      

Chapter 7    Vulnerability Assessment: Implementation                 

Chapter 8    Effectiveness Assessment: Implementation                  

Chapter 9    Calculating Damage Probabilities

Chapter 10   Single Weapons Directed Against an Area of Targets    

Chapter 11   Sticks, Volleys and Cluster Munitions 

Chapter 12   Bridges, Linear Targets, Effective Miss Distances and Tunnels

Chapter 13   Ground Penetration and Cratering                                     

Chapter 14   Air Blast

Chapter 15   Above Ground Buildings and Bunkers

Chapter 16   Collateral Damage Estimation

Chapter 17   Computer Implementation of Weaponeering Methods

Chapter 18   Applications and Case Studies

Third Edition: Introduction and Advanced Weaponeering

Volume  1 – Weaponeering: An Introduction

Chapter 1    Overview of Weaponeering and Weapon Effectiveness

Chapter 2    Introduction to Statistical Methods     

Chapter 3    Weapon Trajectory    

Chapter 4    Delivery Accuracy: Overview             

Chapter 5    Accuracy of GPS/INS Guided Munitions                         

Chapter 6    Introduction to Vulnerability and Effectiveness      

Chapter 7    Vulnerability Assessment: Implementation                 

Chapter 8    Effectiveness Assessment: Implementation                  

Chapter 9    Calculating Damage Probabilities: Monte Carlo Methods

Chapter 10   Calculating Damage Probability: Deterministic Methods  

Chapter 11   Single Weapons Directed Against an Area of Targets         

Chapter 12   Stick Deliveries  

Chapter 13   Cluster Munitions    

Chapter 14   Projectiles

Chapter 15   Weaponeering for Specific Targets using Effectiveness Indices

Chapter 16   Surface-to-Surface Weaponeering: Indirect Fire

Chapter  17  Direct Fire: Infantry, Vehicles, and Small Boats

Chapter 18   Computer Implementation of Weaponeering Methods

Volume  2 – Advanced Weaponeering

Chapter 1    Historical Review of Weapon Effects Methods  

Chapter 2    Advanced Trajectory Methods   

Chapter 3    Delivery Accuracy

Chapter 4    Accuracy of Air-Launched Unguided Weapons 

Chapter 5    Accuracy of Surface-Launched Unguided Munitions   

Chapter 6    Aimpoint Optimization for Multiple Weapon Attacks  

Chapter 7    Nonhomogeneous Targets

Chapter 8    Cratering

Chapter 9    Ground Penetration

Chapter 10   Moving Targets

Chapter 11   Air Blast

Chapter 12   Tunnels

Chapter 13   Personnel Injury

Chapter 14   Above Ground Buildings and Bunkers

Chapter 15   Bridge Targets

Chapter 16   Mines

Chapter 17   Collateral Damage Estimation

Chapter 18   Ray Tracing Effectiveness Methodologies

Chapter 19   Anti–Air Weapon Effectiveness

Chapter 20   Target Acquisition