India, April 6 -- Conflicts raging on in different continents today only have one lesson-the missile opens the door, and the fire walks through it. The window between ignition and irreversible cascade is narrow, hostile and lethally unsurvivable for any human crew operating near live secondary detonation risk. Every air force on earth is watching this play out and asking the same question - what do we do in that window?

Walk through what is happening to military infrastructure right now and the picture is stark. In Iran, the US-Israel campaign entering its fifth week has turned fuel depots into infernos and ammunition stores into rolling detonation chains. Four oil storage facilities and a production transfer centre in Tehran and Alborz ...