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Anka-3Pro
Turkey's Anka-3 is a jet-powered flying-wing UCAV in flight testing, designed for low-observable strike, reconnaissance and future manned-unmanned teaming with the Kaan fighter.
drones · ucav · stealth
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Bayraktar TB3Pro
Turkey's Bayraktar TB3 is a folding-wing, carrier-capable MALE UCAV derived from the TB2 line and built for short-runway ship operations from TCG Anadolu and allied carriers.
drones · ucav · carrier-drone
- Toloka TLK-150Pro Ukraine's Toloka TLK-150 is a small semi-submersible underwater strike drone, publicly shown in 2023 and redesigned by 2025, intended to attack ships below the waterline while exposing only a slim sensor mast. Ukraine · drones · uuv
- MarichkaPro Marichka is a Ukrainian heavy uncrewed underwater vehicle publicly unveiled in 2023, advertised for long-range conventional strike, reconnaissance, and payload transport but still publicly unproven in combat. Ukraine · drones · uuv
- Donovan (Scale AI)Pro Scale AI's Donovan is a US defense generative-AI decision-support platform, built to let commanders, analysts and staff officers query classified data, orchestrate LLMs and build mission-tailored AI agents. USA · software · command-software
- AuterionPro Auterion is a Swiss-founded, Arlington-headquartered drone software company whose AuterionOS, Skynode hardware and Nemyx swarm layer give Western and Ukrainian unmanned systems a common autonomy stack. USA · Europe · software
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Palantir AIPPro
Palantir AIP is the company's generative-AI and autonomous-agent layer, built to connect LLMs and other models to controlled enterprise, intelligence and military workflows.
USA · software · AI
- Palantir GothamPro Palantir Gotham is Palantir Technologies' government and defense data-fusion platform, used for intelligence analysis, targeting workflows, sensor tasking and access-controlled common operating pictures. USA · software · command-software
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Ukraine's Sea Drones Stopped Hunting Ships. Now They Carry the Swarm.
The boat that pushed Russia's fleet out of the western Black Sea now carries a cluster of attack drones in its hull, and the Pentagon is copying the method for a possible war with China.
Ukraine · Naval · Autonomy
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Quantum Systems raises $1.2 billion, doubling to an $8 billion valuation
The Munich reconnaissance-drone maker more than doubled its valuation in under a year, and its co-CEO says the cash is for acquiring rivals in a crowded European market.
Europe · Funding · Quantum Systems
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NATO's Palantir Maven Goes Fully Operational, Wiring AI Into Allied Targeting
NATO's AI targeting software just cleared its last gate. It now runs on the alliance's classified network, and one US company owns the code.
Europe · USA · Autonomy
- Alta Ares X-LockPro Alta Ares is France's big-funded counter-drone startup — two years old, it raised a €50M Series A on AI guidance "combat-proven over Ukraine." It builds the anti-Shahed X-Lock and turbojet Black Bird interceptors; its Pixel Lock software is the claimed edge, though its record is self-reported. Europe · air defense · counter-UAS
- BLAZEPro BLAZE is the order-first entry in Europe's counter-drone wave — a radar-guided, NATO-codified interceptor drone from Latvia's Origin Robotics that flies a radar vector onto a Shahed, then finishes with AI vision. Built on a tiny ~€4M budget, it's fielded by four NATO states and picked by France. Europe · air defense · counter-UAS
- KorkutPro Korkut is Türkiye's twin-35mm radar-directed anti-aircraft gun — the gun rung of the "Steel Dome" ladder below the Hisar and Siper missiles. Firing airburst rounds that throw a cone of tungsten pellets, it's the Turkish gun answer to cheap drones, like the Gepard and Skynex. Europe · air defense · spaag
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E-3 SentryPro
The E-3 Sentry is the original AWACS — the Boeing 707 with the rotating dome that has been NATO's eyes in the sky since 1977. It quarterbacked the Gulf War, and is now an aging, shrinking fleet in a retirement crisis, its E-7 replacement in turmoil — a gap laid bare when Iran destroyed one in 2026.
USA · Air · awacs
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AGM-114 HellfirePro
The AGM-114 Hellfire is the 40-year workhorse of US precision strike — the laser-guided missile that armed the Apache against Soviet tanks, defined the armed-drone era on the Reaper, killed Soleimani, and in its bladed R9X "Ninja" form kills single targets with steel blades instead of a warhead.
USA · missiles · air-to-surface-missile
- WZ-9 Divine EaglePro The WZ-9 Divine Eagle is China's giant twin-fuselage stealth-hunting drone — a high-altitude uncrewed radar aircraft built to spot F-22s and F-35s and cue missiles at them. Almost everything known about it comes from satellite imagery; almost nothing is officially confirmed. China · Air · uav
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E-2 HawkeyePro
The E-2 Hawkeye is the US Navy's carrier-based radar aircraft — the twin-turboprop rotodome plane China's KJ-600 copies. Six decades of iteration, an AESA-radar E-2D that quarterbacks the fleet and cues SM-6 missiles over the horizon, and the airborne command node over the Red Sea and Iran.
USA · Air · aewc
- Nordic Air Defence KreugerPro Nordic Air Defence is the smallest, cheapest, most software-first bet in Europe's counter-drone wave — a Swedish startup whose one-pound Kreuger-100XR dart loiters, then rams or blasts a Shahed for a few thousand dollars. The least-proven name in the field: no combat record, pre-production. Europe · air defense · counter-UAS
- Alpine Eagle SentinelPro Alpine Eagle is the airborne outlier of Europe's counter-drone wave — a Munich startup whose Sentinel system puts the whole kill chain in the sky: a reusable "mothership" drone that flies high, carries interceptor drones, and hunts hostile drones from above rather than from a ground launcher. Europe · air defense · counter-UAS
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HisarPro
Hisar is Türkiye's indigenous short-and-medium-range SAM family — the two middle rungs (Hisar-A, Hisar-O) of the "Steel Dome" air-defense ladder below the long-range Siper. ASELSAN radars, ROKETSAN missiles, and a naval version that scored a live UAV kill in 2025.
Europe · air defense · sam
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APKWSPro
APKWS is the cheap precision kit that turns a dumb 70mm rocket into a laser-guided munition — the ~$25,000 round underneath VAMPIRE, the OA-1K, and F-16s shooting down Shaheds over the Red Sea. Not a missile, but a guidance section that clips into rockets the fleet already carries.
USA · air defense · precision-munition
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Powerus Puts Ukraine's Combat-Proven Drone Swarming Into the Pentagon's Drone Race
The Pentagon wants FPV mass it has no pilots to fly. A Ukrainian software firm proven over 100,000 combat missions is now inside the $1.1 billion race, through a US partner.
USA · Ukraine · Autonomy
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AT-6 WolverinePro
The AT-6 Wolverine is the A-29 Super Tucano's perennial bridesmaid — Textron's armed version of the T-6 Texan II trainer, faster and with ejection seats, sharing thousands of trainers' logistics. Yet it lost every big competition to the A-29 and to the OA-1K, and only Thailand ever bought it.
USA · Air · light-attack