This paper proposes a time-varying sliding mode con-trol method to address nonlinear missile body kinematics based on the suboptimal control theory.The analytical solution of sub-optimal time-varying sliding surface and the corresponding sub-optimal control law are obtained by solving the state-dependent Riccati equation analytically.Then,the Lyapunov method is used to analyze the motion trend in sliding surface and the asympto-tic stability of the closed-loop system is validated.The subopti-mal control law is transformed to the form of pseudo-angle-of-attack feedback.The simulation results indicate that the satisfac-tory performance can be obtained and the control law can over-come the influence of parameter errors.