About Missile Design
Chief Engineer Joe Robinson founded Missile Design in 2001 to create more cost-effective missiles, smart munitions, and UAVs than prime contractors and to solve previously unsolved problems.
Key Accomplishments
- Designed the only fully capable hypersonic defeat interceptor.
- Developed CorpsSam/MEADS, EAPS, MAST-M, NSM, and HF UAV.
- Contributed to BAT-P3I, KEI, Launch Vehicles, Targets, Tactical Missiles, Brilliant Munitions, Guided Bullets, and flying saucers.
- Played a role in most U.S. Army hit-to-kill missile developments and flight test programs.
- Operates on a "Hollywood Model"—only employing the best talent when needed for efficiency.
Innovations
- Invented and designed Surrogate, Recoverable Missiles, MAST-M, and NSM.
- Developed the G-sec Paradigm and Latency Equation.
- Designed missiles for Raytheon, Lockheed, NGC, Navy, MDA, DARPA, and AMRDEC.
Industry Leadership
- Follows the Skunk Works Development Paradigm.
- Delivers aerospace solutions under budget and ahead of schedule.
- Demonstrates that small, focused teams outperform large teams.
- Provides cost-saving innovations despite shrinking defense budgets.
- Advocates for recovery and surrogate missile technologies to reduce program costs and timelines.
- Responsible for the greatest air defense and missile design innovations of the past three decades.
New Book
How to Design Air Defense Systems with Examples, CUAS, MRAD, BMD, and Hypersonic Defense
Drawing on four decades of experience across Patriot PAC-3 precursor programs, Arrow, THAAD, MEADS, missile defense, hypersonic defense, CUAS, and advanced air defense concepts, Joe Robinson shares the methodologies, lessons learned, and engineering approaches used to design modern air and missile defense systems.
257 Pages • Air Defense • Missile Defense • CUAS • MRAD • BMD • Hypersonic Defense
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