AMA licenses fast-running, robust, nonlinear engineering-level aerodynamic and simulation tools; these tools ground and compliment computational fluid dynamics (CFD) codes and wind tunnel tests using a fraction of the resources. The MISL3 and MISDL tools are used for aerodynamic analysis, design optimization, and large data base generation required for: flight simulations, control system development, and wind tunnel testing. The component forces/moments and load distributions are used by structural engineers for airframe design. STRLNCH is a specialized 6‑DOF simulation tool that characterizes the release of stores from aircraft and helicopters. Critical applications include safe weapons release/launch and jettison, external fuel tank release, bird strike and ice impact, and air-launch of larger vehicles including test rockets and satellite launch vehicles. The tools model important nonlinear phenomena associated with flight regimes from subsonic through supersonic Mach numbers and flight at high angles of attack including induced vortical effects. The tools were originally developed by Nielsen Engineering and Research (NEAR), who joined AMA in 2016.