pilot: real ballistics from the solved Shell records — and the metric that says it did not help

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Shell_TCAF_DeltaSaber_*_P: Velocity 8000, LifeTime 0.5 s, MaximumRange 4000
(self-consistent: 8000 x 0.5 = 4000), all confirmed. Two things were wrong:
lead computed flight time as d / OUR speed (400-2000 u/s, so every shot was led
4-16x too far), and FIRE_RANGE was 5000 — past where the shells expire.

Both fixed. But the HUD's own kill counters read 0000/0000 at the end of EVERY
run including the nearest-fighter baseline, so the pilot kills nothing in any
configuration and 'fraction of frames firing' was never measuring lethality.
No improvement is claimed.

One clean negative result kept: gating on the target's angular half-size alone
(2.7 deg at 2584 units) is far tighter than the steering loop can hold the nose
— firing collapsed to 1 frame in 2639. Angular size is a floor on the firing
cone, never a cap.

Next: the HUD carries a live ammo count, so holding fire and watching it settles
'we never shoot' vs 'we shoot and miss' in a single run.

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