PRECISION FIRES & KINETICS

HYPERSONIC WEAPONS & STANDOFF MISSILE SYSTEMS

Calculate flight times, defender reaction windows, terminal kinetic energy (Ek), and single-shot kill probabilities for Iskander-M, Zircon, Kinzhal, DF-21D, and Tomahawk systems.

PRECISION FIRES ENGINE

ISKANDER-M & HYPERSONIC STRIKE ENVELOPE CALCULATOR

Trajectory kinetics, reaction time windows, terminal velocities & air defense saturation matrices.

DEPLOYMENT THEATER:
350 km
20 km Max: 500 km
TIME OF FLIGHT TO TARGET 3 min 28 sec
TERMINAL VELOCITY 2,020 m/s (Mach 5.9)
DEFENDER REACTION WINDOW ~ 42 seconds
ESTIMATED Pk (KILL PROBABILITY) 28% Single-Shot Pk
LAUNCH BATTERY (TEL) TARGET IMPACT
PROFILE: QUASI-BALLISTIC AEROBALLISTIC (50km APOGEE) Ek: ~ 980 MJ IMPACT ENERGY
YOUTUBE ESSAY HOOK / EXPLAINER:

"At Mach 5.9, an Iskander-M missile fired from Kaliningrad covers the 350 km distance to Warsaw in just over 3 minutes. Because it stays inside the stratosphere at 50 kilometers and pulls 30G terminal evasive maneuvers, traditional ballistic missile early-warning radars have less than 45 seconds to cue a Patriot battery."

SPECTRUM DOMINANCE

ELECTRONIC WARFARE (EW) & RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS) ANALYZER

Comparative stealth signatures ($m^2$), radar frequency band propagation & burn-through physics.

4TH ROOT RADAR EQUATION: R_detect ∝ ⁴√(RCS × P_t × G²)
RCS BENCHMARKS RADAR CROSS SECTION IN SQUARE METERS (m²)
B-21 Raider / F-22 Raptor Bumblebee / Steel BB (0.0001 m²)
-40 dBsm
F-35A Lightning II Golf Ball / Metal Marble (0.001 m²)
-30 dBsm
Chengdu J-20A Mighty Dragon Small Bird / Sparrow (0.02 m²)
-17 dBsm
Sukhoi Su-57 Felon Large Eagle / Beachball (0.25 m²)
-6 dBsm
F-15C Eagle / Su-30MKI Standard 4th Gen (5.0 - 15.0 m²)
+10 dBsm
B-52H Stratofortress Flying Barn Door (100.0 m²)
+20 dBsm
RADAR FREQUENCY BANDS COUNTER-STEALTH VS FIRE-CONTROL PROPAGATION
VHF / UHF (Meter Waves) 100 MHz - 1 GHz

Resonates with aircraft physical dimensions (wings, vertical stabilizers). Detects stealth fighters at long range, but lacks resolution to guide a missile.

ROLE: Nebo-M Early Warning Counter-Stealth
S-Band / L-Band 1 GHz - 4 GHz

Balanced atmospheric penetration & volumetric tracking. Standard for carrier and destroyer 3D volume search.

ROLE: AN/SPY-6(V)1, Type 346B Dragon Eye
X-Band (Centimeter Waves) 8 GHz - 12 GHz

Centimeter precision necessary for weapons-quality track (missile cueing). Highly degraded by RAM coatings and faceted edges of true stealth airframes.

ROLE: APG-81 (F-35 AESA), Patriot PAC-3 MPQ-65
SCRIPT INSIGHT (HOW TO EXPLAIN STEALTH TO AUDIENCES):

"Stealth does NOT mean invisible to radar—it means delaying detection until the fighter is already within missile launch range. An S-400 radar that detects an F-15 at 350 km won't see an F-35 until 35 km, by which point an AMRAAM or JSM has already been fired."

BURN-THROUGH CALCULATOR R = ⁴√(Pt·G²·λ²·σ / (4π)³·Smin)
DETECTION RANGE: —
WEAPONS-QUALITY TRACK: —
MISSILE ENGAGEMENT ZONE: —
STEALTH ADVANTAGE: —