Jake J. Hecla

MIT researcher and co-author, with R. Scott Kemp, of the "nuclear-aircraft modeling toolkit" (arXiv:2607.01234) that used only public imagery and prior reporting to physically constrain the design of Russia's classified Burevestnik cruise missile — its propulsion type, reactor thermal power, and predicted radionuclide exhaust signature. That single paper now anchors four claim/observation notes in the vault's Burevestnik-verification cluster, which is what earns the hub rather than a mention: it is the vault's clearest instance of open-source physics doing forensic work a classified program is designed to prevent.

References

• claim-burevestnik-osint-constrained-to-direct-cycle-turbojet · claim-burevestnik-cruise-reactor-thermal-power-4-3-mwth · claim-burevestnik-reactor-emits-radionuclides-in-exhaust · claim-mit-open-source-physics-contested-official-military-claims-patriot-and-burevestnik · claim-hecla-kemp-burevestnik-signature-differs-from-nyonoksa-fission-products · claim-burevestnik-hecla-kemp-isotope-signature-unconfirmed-by-detection-data
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