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- AVILUS WespePro AVILUS's Wespe is a German uncrewed coaxial-rotor helicopter built to carry about 200 kg of cargo or casualties some 300 km with no crew aboard; the first-generation prototype flew on 1 June 2026, pitched at the Bundeswehr's contested-resupply and medevac needs. Europe · drones · uncrewed
- Lockheed Martin GRIZZLYPro Lockheed Martin's GRIZZLY is a containerized missile launcher, tested in June 2026 firing a JAGM to intercept a Group 3 attack drone at Yuma, that fuses Lockheed's Sanctum battle-management software and Fortem R-40 radars into one counter-drone kill chain. USA · air defense · counter-UAS
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Airbus U145Pro
The Airbus U145 is an uncrewed, AI-flown conversion of the best-selling H145 light-twin helicopter, unveiled at ILA Berlin 2026 and pitched for high-volume cargo resupply in contested zones where putting aircrew at risk is no longer acceptable.
Europe · drones · uncrewed
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Perennial HornetPro
The Perennial Hornet is a ~$5,000 AI-guided one-way strike drone from Eric Schmidt's Perennial Autonomy — an optically navigated fixed-wing aircraft Ukrainian units use to burn Russian supply trucks 50-150 km behind the front, the workhorse of Kyiv's "logistics lockdown" campaign.
USA · Ukraine · missiles
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CACI SkyValorPro
CACI's SkyValor is a long-range, autonomous counter-drone system that defeats UAS without gunfire, jamming their links and firing nets to capture them intact. The Pentagon validated it for use across the entire US Joint Force in June 2026 after a southern-border test.
USA · air defense · counter-uav
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Airbus RavenstormPro
Airbus's U760 Ravenstorm is an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft concept — a stealthy loyal wingman for air-to-air combat, strike and jamming unveiled at ILA Berlin 2026 and aimed at Germany's post-FCAS combat-drone race. So far it is a model, not an aircraft.
Europe · drones · CCA
- Yartura DancerPro The Yartura Dancer 4.5.0 is a Ukrainian fixed-wing interceptor drone that reaches 450 km/h and uses an AI homing system to re-attack a target drone until it is destroyed — built against the fast jet-powered variants of Russia's Shahed/Geran family. Ukraine · drones · interceptor
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Victor U250Pro
The Victor U250 is a German hybrid-electric heavy-lift cargo drone from ERC System, an IABG subsidiary, built to carry up to 250 kg over 300 km for battlefield resupply — targeting the gap between small cargo drones and crewed helicopters, with Rheinmetall backing production.
Europe · drones · cargo-drone
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VeprPro
Vepr is a Ukrainian tracked ground robot for frontline logistics and casualty evacuation — 350 kg of cargo or two wounded, ~40 km per charge, plus remote demining, recovery and one-way strike roles. Codified by Ukraine's MoD in June 2026 after two years on the front.
Ukraine · drones · UGV
- Mach Industries AtlasPro Mach Industries' Atlas is a hybrid-electric, runway-independent strike drone being developed under DIU's RIMES program to carry 1,000-pound munitions 1,400 nautical miles from destroyer decks and austere sites — and come back to rearm. USA · drones · uas
- AeroVironment P550Pro The AeroVironment P550 is a runway-independent, battery-electric eVTOL reconnaissance drone built for the US Army's Long-Range Reconnaissance program, giving battalion commanders up to five hours of modular ISR, relay, electronic-warfare and strike capability. USA · drones · uav
- UVision CORTEXPro UVision's CORTEX is a battle-intelligence and mission-management layer, launched in June 2026, that fuses sensor feeds and routes targets to the company's Hero, Viper and Peregrine loitering munitions, letting one operator supervise many munitions across air, land and sea. Israel · software · command-software
- Palladyne SwarmOSPro Palladyne AI's SwarmOS is a decentralized edge-autonomy software stack built to let one operator command a mixed swarm of drones from different manufacturers without a cloud link — run inside the US Army's NGC2 prototype at Ivy Mass 2026, now under Army and AFRL validation contracts. USA · software · Autonomy
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D-Fend EnforceAirPro
D-Fend's EnforceAir is an Israeli counter-drone system that detects a rogue drone's radio protocol, takes over its control link and lands it at a predefined safe spot - no jamming, no shooting. Motorola Solutions agreed in June 2026 to buy D-Fend for $1.5 billion.
Israel · Space · counter-uav
- Saronic CorsairPro The Saronic Corsair is a 24-foot (7.3 m) American autonomous surface vessel built for mass production. In June 2026 a Task Force 59 Corsair recovered a downed Apache crew off Oman — the first at-sea personnel rescue ever carried out by an uncrewed vessel. USA · drones · USV
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Shield AI X-BATPro
Shield AI's X-BAT is a runway-independent, tail-sitting VTOL autonomous combat jet flown by the company's Hivemind AI pilot — a claimed 3,700+ km range from a trailer launcher, no runway required, with first flight planned for late 2026 and a production pitch to Poland.
USA · drones · vtol
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Shield AI's V-BAT is finding the targets for Ukraine's campaign to cut off Crimea
A CBS News report from Kyiv details how Shield AI's V-BAT reconnaissance drone finds targets for the Ukrainian strike campaign that has hit dozens of Russian tankers and left Crimea rationing fuel.
Ukraine · Autonomy · Shield AI
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Overland AI ULTRAPro
The Overland AI ULTRA is a purpose-built, fully autonomous American uncrewed ground vehicle pairing the DARPA RACER-derived OverDrive autonomy stack with a modular light platform — the subject of the US Marine Corps' first production buy of autonomous ground vehicles.
USA · drones · UGV
- DARTPro DART is a Ukrainian balloon-launched strike missile: dropped from a stratospheric aerostat at 12-18 km, it shuts off its own navigation at ~6 km and finishes on a fixed solid-fuel course, leaving Russian jamming nothing to attack. Its graphite warhead is built to short out power grids. Ukraine · missiles · deep-strike
- MOBIDIKPro MOBIDIK is a modular Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel family from Avarid, unveiled in June 2026 in six combat variants spanning maritime air defense, medium- and strategic-range strike, missile-and-gun engagement and a 300 kg assault configuration. Ukraine · drones · naval-drone
- Iron WaspPro Iron Wasp is a vehicle-mounted hard-kill counter-drone interceptor from Rafael and SpearUAV: a capsule-launched interceptor drone, derived from SpearUAV's Viper I, that lets armored vehicles physically destroy FPV drones and loitering munitions while on the move. Israel · air defense · counter-UAS
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ASGARDPro
ASGARD is the British Army's AI-enabled "digital targeting web" — a multi-vendor recce-strike network fusing sensors, AI decision support and strike systems. The Army says it cut a corps planning cycle from 72 hours to one and multiplied daily targets tenfold.
Europe · software · c2
- Volna Kupol GarantPro Volna Kupol Garant ("Wave Dome Guarantor") is Russia's trailer-mounted electronic-warfare complex built to jam Starlink's Ku-band uplink, denying Ukraine's Starlink-guided strike drones their control link across a roughly 20-square-kilometer bubble. Russia · Space · electronic-warfare
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Kraken K3 ScoutPro
The Kraken K3 Scout is a UK-built 8.4-metre high-speed uncrewed surface vessel — 55 knots, 600 kg modular payload — fielded by the Royal Navy under Project Beehive and the first drone boat ever airdropped from a transport aircraft.
Europe · drones · USV