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Britain's £400 Million CORVUS Deal Buys Tekever's Update Cycle. The AR5 Still Has to Survive.Pro
CORVUS replaces Watchkeeper's 54-aircraft buy with up to 24 AR5s, a contract built for service-life updates and a Swindon line. Another 1,025 small drones hedge the question of whether the larger aircraft can survive.
Europe · Ukraine · drones
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Italian Typhoons Downed a Drone Over Lithuania. A Two-Fighter Intercept Runs Near $100,000.
NATO's first drone shootdown over Lithuania came from Baltic Air Policing fighters, five months after Lithuania bought 48 interceptors priced near $15,000 a shot for exactly this job.
Europe · air defense · NATO
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The Pentagon's Watchdog Priced the Iran War's Munitions at $22.3 Billion. Ukraine's Winter Sits Behind the Refill.
The Pentagon inspector general made the munitions shortfall official and named industrial bottlenecks as the constraint. Ukraine's winter air defense now rests on allied stock swaps and its own cheap interceptors.
USA · Ukraine · Iran
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Trump's Energy Pause Puts Ukraine's Self-Made Refinery Campaign on the TablePro
Fire Point makes 300 to 400 long-range attack drones a day. Washington is asking Kyiv to curb their refinery mission while the Gulf drives the larger diesel shock.
Ukraine · Russia · USA
- Samad-3Pro The Samad-3 is a long-range Houthi one-way attack drone with an external fuel tank, an estimated reach beyond 1,800 km and an Iranian-linked commercial-component supply chain. Iran · missiles · one-way-attack-drone
- Palestine-2Pro The Palestine-2 is an Iranian-derived, two-stage solid-propellant ballistic missile fielded by Yemen's Houthi movement for long-range strikes against Israel. Iran · missiles · ballistic-missile
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Type 052C Luyang IIPro
China's first area-air-defence destroyer class, combining a four-face Type 346 AESA radar with 48 vertically launched HHQ-9 missiles and serving as the technological bridge to the Type 052D.
China · Sea · destroyer
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YJ-83 / C-802Pro
China's widely exported family of subsonic, turbojet-powered anti-ship cruise missiles, fielded from ships, aircraft and coastal launchers and reproduced in Iran as the Noor, Qader and Ghadir.
China · Iran · missiles
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DF-16Pro
China's DF-16 is a road-mobile, two-stage ballistic missile designed for conventional precision strikes against Taiwan and other targets across the western Pacific's first island chain.
China · missiles · ballistic-missile
- PalantinPro Palantin is a Russian truck-mounted electronic-warfare complex that detects and suppresses radio communications while coordinating multiple reconnaissance and jamming systems across an operational-tactical network. Russia · Ukraine · Space
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T-84 OplotPro
Ukraine's T-80UD-derived main battle tank family, combining a high-output diesel engine, autoloaded 125 mm gun and Ukrainian protection systems in a fleet built principally for Thailand.
Ukraine · Land · main-battle-tank
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Orlan-30Pro
The Orlan-30 is a Russian fixed-wing reconnaissance UAV that adds laser target designation to the Orlan family, linking aerial surveillance directly to guided artillery and air-launched weapons.
Russia · Ukraine · drones
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Kh-38Pro
The Kh-38 is a Russian modular, supersonic air-to-surface missile family combining a common airframe with laser, imaging-infrared, radar or satellite-guided configurations.
Russia · Ukraine · missiles
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UR-77 MeteoritPro
A Soviet tracked mine-clearing vehicle that launches explosive line charges to open lanes through minefields, with a secondary wartime role as a short-range demolition weapon.
Russia · Ukraine · Land
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MistralPro
Mistral is a French infrared-guided very-short-range air-defense missile family used from tripod, vehicle, naval and helicopter launchers against aircraft, helicopters, drones and cruise missiles.
Europe · Ukraine · air defense
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Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrierPro
The Queen Elizabeth class comprises the Royal Navy's two conventionally powered STOVL aircraft carriers, built around the F-35B Lightning and intended to sustain UK carrier strike through alternating ship availability.
Europe · Sea · aircraft-carrier
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MQ-1C Gray EaglePro
The MQ-1C Gray Eagle is the US Army's armed medium-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft, combining persistent surveillance, targeting, electronic warfare and Hellfire strike capabilities.
USA · drones · male-uas
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V-22 OspreyPro
The V-22 Osprey is a twin-engine military tiltrotor combining helicopter-like vertical takeoff and landing with the speed and range of a turboprop transport.
USA · Air · tiltrotor
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RIM-116 RAMPro
A compact US-German ship-defense missile that combines passive radio-frequency and infrared homing to intercept anti-ship missiles and other close-range threats.
USA · Europe · air defense
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M113Pro
The M113 is a lightweight American tracked armored personnel carrier whose simple construction, extensive variant family and large surviving inventory have sustained its use from Vietnam to Ukraine.
USA · Ukraine · Land
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D-30 howitzer (2A18)Pro
The D-30 is a Soviet 122 mm towed howitzer distinguished by its three-leg carriage and 360-degree traverse, widely exported and still heavily used in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Russia · Ukraine · Land
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S-125 Neva/Pechora (SA-3 Goa)Pro
A Soviet low-to-medium-altitude surface-to-air missile system whose modernized descendants remain in service, including Polish Newa SC and Ukrainian Pechora-2D batteries.
Russia · Ukraine · air defense
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2K12 Kub (SA-6 Gainful)Pro
The 2K12 Kub, known to NATO as the SA-6 Gainful, is a Soviet tracked surface-to-air missile system built to accompany ground forces and engage aircraft at low and medium altitudes.
Russia · Ukraine · air defense
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2K22 TunguskaPro
A Soviet-designed tracked short-range air-defense system combining twin 30 mm cannons, radio-command missiles and onboard radars to protect mobile ground forces from low-flying aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles and drones.
Russia · Ukraine · air defense