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The first hand held firearms date to the 1350s. The Persians have been jumped over centuries of lockwork development, but they should still be centuries from rifling or socket bayonets, which are unrelated paths of improvement. He's probably in less danger from muskets than from the archers...

Musket balls don't have peoples names on them. They're addressed "to whom it may concern" or "occupant." Aimed fire waits for rifles, which are a fair piece beyond Persian capability. Cavalry doesn't start to fade until the socket bayonets are invented several centuries after muskets first...

Alexander wouldn't have been able to conquer the Persian Empire in his short lifetime if it wasn't also on a downswing. Gunpowder isn't going to change that natural civilizational cycle. It may mean no one not a tributary with access to Persian technology can exploit it, but the empire's still...

Ah, like the Ottomans conquered the Balkans. Which never broke free. No, wait. That's not how it happened. Phillip being a Persian subject doesn't preclude Alexander uniting Greece and using their own weapons technology against them. It just makes it easier for the Greeks to get the...

He did say naval. Getting bombs loaded from a ship to a floatplane is a major innovation. It requires having operational doctrine before the floatplane carrier is built or converted or it won't have the magazines to try.