Twenty years ago, work was initiated to consider the feasibility of using pyramidal infrared domes for dual-mode air-to-air missile applications.
The present contribution concerns the degradation in the performance of the infrared domes subsystem that results from the aerodynamic heating of such infrared domes, under conditions representative of anticipated most-severe launch environments for internal and external missile-carry configurations.
The problem is formulated in a general but compact form compatible with the state of the art of contemporary infrared domes technology.
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