First Principles Counter-UAS Radar: Adversarial Validation and Staged Development for the FPV Drone Threat

Two papers and a companion guide presenting an adversarial simulation framework for counter-drone radar development. Main paper: "First Principles Counter-UAS Radar: Adversarial Validation and Staged Development for the FPV Drone Threat" — Ten adversarial rules for honest radar simulation, applied across approximately 30,000 Monte Carlo pipeline evaluations in 16 test campaigns. Demonstrates that cumulative optimistic assumptions overestimate detection range by 40–50%. Companion paper: "Functional Triage Architectures for Multi-Threat Drone Engagement" — The case for functional programming as the substrate for real-time drone swarm triage. Plain language guide: "A Plain Language Guide to Counter-Drone Radar" — Every major concept from both papers explained without equations, for readers without an engineering background.