I simulated 1200 Iranian missiles attacking air defences in a browser
Details
- External ID
- 47224982
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I simulated 1200 Iranian missiles attacking air defences in a browser
- Website domain
- airdefense.dev
- Launched
- March 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6660516605166051
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I've built airdefense.dev, which is able to simulate all kinds of ballistic missiles, one-way-attack drones like Shaheds, and most of the commonly deploy anti-air defence systems. All of this inside the browser. I've now added a scenario of the current attacks in the Middle East by Iran. It was quite the challenge to optimize it enough to not completely kill a common laptop, although it still runs best on a bit beefier systems.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- military simulation for air defense systems
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A visual 2D/3D browser simulation canvas is easily vibe-coded, but realistic ballistics trajectories, physics engines, radar detection models, and interceptor math require specialized domain simulation knowledge.
What it would actually take: A production version requires WebGL/Three.js or Canvas API combined with a custom physics engine running in Web Workers. The difficult aspects are implementing realistic orbital/sub-orbital ballistic trajectory equations (gravity, drag, staging), sensor cone simulation (radar cross-section, line-of-sight horizon calculation), and proportional navigation guidance algorithms for interceptor missiles. Building this realistically requires domain expertise in orbital mechanics, guidance navigation, and defense missile aerodynamics.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: High CPU usage kills MacBook Air performance, Simulation of hundreds of missiles/drones not optimized
Feature requests: Improve performance optimization for laptops
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Launched 110 days after the earliest competitor.
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