Blinding Guidance Against Missiles Sharing Bearings-Only Measurements

A novel "blind and evade" guidance concept for an aerial target, which is exposed to a threat of two homing missiles, is presented. Each missile is assumed to measure solely its own line-of-sight (LOS) angle and share it with the other missile. Such information sharing enables the missiles to form a triangular measuring baseline relative to the target and to improve their estimation accuracy. However, if the separation angle between the two LOS vectors is small enough, the observability of such double-LOS measuring approach becomes weak. Motivated by this observation, the idea of the proposed concept is to bring the missiles on the same LOS with the target, i.e., blinding them, and then perform an appropriately timed target evasive maneuver. The target's guidance law is derived under the assumption of perfect information and formulated as an optimal control problem. Simulation results demonstrate the potential of the proposed defense concept.