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PavehPro
The Paveh is Iran's 1,650 km-claimed cruise missile — the IRGC's Project 351, identical to the Houthis' Quds that hit Saudi Aramco in 2019. Used against Israel in April 2024 (0 of ~30 got through), exported to three proxy arsenals, and absent from the missile-dominated 2025–26 wars.
Iran · missiles · cruise-missile
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S8000 BanderolPro
The S8000 Banderol is Russia's AliExpress cruise missile — a Kronshtadt-built weapon around a Chinese hobby turbojet, launched from Orion drones: 500 km range, 114 kg warhead, agility Ukrainian intelligence says beats the Kalibr. First used on Kyiv in June 2026.
Russia · missiles · cruise-missile
- V2UPro The V2U is Russia's autonomous AI strike drone — Nvidia Jetson brain, terrain-matching navigation, and late-2025 builds recovered with no radio link at all: nothing to jam. CSIS assesses Russia has likely fielded a fully autonomous weapon in combat. Maker unknown. Russia · missiles · loitering-munition
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MolniyaPro
The Molniya is Russia's plywood-and-tape strike drone — a $300–1,600 fixed-wing weapon launched by the thousands each month against Ukrainian cities and supply roads, now spawning fiber-optic, FPV-carrier, recon and 13 kg heavy variants. Cheap mass as doctrine.
Russia · missiles · one-way-attack
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Columbia classPro
The Columbia class is the US Navy's next ballistic-missile submarine — 12 boats replacing 14 Ohios, with electric drive, an X-stern and a life-of-ship reactor. The $126B+ program is the Navy's top priority, running ~a year late with lead-boat delivery now targeted for 2028.
USA · Sea · ssbn
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LGM-35A SentinelPro
The LGM-35A Sentinel is the US ICBM replacing the 1970-vintage Minuteman III — and America's most troubled strategic program: an 81% cost breach to at least $141B, silo reuse abandoned for all-new silos, first flight slipped to 2028 and IOC to the early 2030s.
USA · missiles · icbm
- JL-3Pro The JL-3 is China's third-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile — a ~10,000 km-class, likely MIRV-capable weapon now fielded on Jin-class submarines, which the Pentagon says ranges most of the continental US. First shown publicly at the September 2025 parade. China · missiles · slbm
- DF-27Pro The DF-27 is China's ICBM-range hypersonic glide missile — per the Pentagon a fielded conventional ICBM with the world's longest-range anti-ship variant, reaching Hawaii, Alaska and much of the Pacific. Never shown or acknowledged by Beijing; nearly all data traces to one leaked US document. China · missiles · hypersonic
- Hwasong-18Pro The Hwasong-18 is North Korea's first solid-fuel ICBM — cold-launched, road-mobile, three-for-three in 2023 tests, with an implied 15,000 km reach covering the entire US. It compresses pre-launch warning to minutes and sparked an unresolved fight over Russian design help. missiles · icbm · ballistic-missile
- KN-25Pro The KN-25 is North Korea's 600mm "super-large" rocket launcher — the world's biggest-caliber guided rocket artillery, a rocket/ballistic-missile hybrid reaching 380 km, nuclear-tasked and mass-produced. Despite two years of reports, no transfer to Russia has ever been confirmed. Land · mlrs · rocket-artillery
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M1989 KoksanPro
The M1989 Koksan is North Korea's 170mm self-propelled gun — the largest-caliber tube artillery in service anywhere, built to range Seoul. Since late 2024 Pyongyang has shipped 120–200 to Russia, where they now fire on Ukrainian lines and are being hunted by drones and HIMARS.
Russia · Land · artillery
- TayfunPro The Roketsan Tayfun is Turkey's longest-range ballistic missile — revealed by a 561 km test in 2022, in mass production since 2023, with the enlarged Block-4 marketed as Turkey's "first hypersonic missile." Range claims span 280 to 1,500 km; only the demonstration is certain. missiles · ballistic-missile · srbm
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TCG AnadoluPro
TCG Anadolu is Turkey's flagship — a Juan Carlos I-derived LHD reinvented as the "world's first drone carrier" after the F-35B expulsion. Bayraktar TB3 drones fly from its ski-jump deck, struck sea targets in NATO's Baltic exercise in 2026, and Kizilelma is meant to follow.
Sea · lhd · amphibious-assault-ship
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KizilelmaPro
The Bayraktar Kizilelma is Baykar's jet-powered combat drone — the self-styled "unmanned fighter" that scored the claimed world-first UCAV beyond-visual-range air-to-air kill in November 2025, entered serial production before any US CCA, and is designed to fly from TCG Anadolu.
drones · ucav · jet-drone
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KAANPro
The TAI KAAN is Turkey's indigenous fifth-generation fighter — flown in prototype form in February 2024, contracted for its first 20 production jets in May 2026, and already exported: Indonesia signed for 48. Its schedule still hinges on US-supplied F110 engines.
Air · fighter · stealth
- J-50Pro The Shenyang J-50 (J-XDS) is China's second sixth-generation fighter prototype — a tailless, twin-engine lambda-wing jet with swiveling wingtips, first observed 26 December 2024, the same day as the Chengdu J-36. Beijing has never acknowledged it; everything known is OSINT. China · Air · fighter
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F-47Pro
The Boeing F-47 is the US Air Force's sixth-generation NGAD fighter — the planned F-22 successor, awarded March 2025, with a claimed 1,000+ nautical mile combat radius and Mach 2+ speed. The first airframe is in build in St. Louis; first flight is targeted for 2028.
USA · Air · fighter
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Saab signs $2.54 billion contract to send Ukraine 16 Gripen E fighters
Sweden's letter of intent becomes a binding order for 16 Gripen E, but the first new jets reach Ukraine only in 2029, with donated older Gripens filling the gap.
Ukraine · Europe · Air
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Israel runs Iron Beam laser alongside Iron Dome in first joint air-defense drill
Israel ran its Iron Beam laser alongside Iron Dome for the first time in a joint drill, letting commanders trade $50,000 interceptors for near-free laser shots against cheap drones.
Israel · air defense · Rafael
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EU sends Ukraine €3.9 billion for drones, its first defense payout under the €90 billion loan
The €3.9 billion is the first defense payout of the EU's €90 billion Ukraine Support Loan, and it is walled off to one thing: buying Ukrainian-made drones.
Ukraine · Europe · Funding
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AWS names Anduril its preferred edge provider, putting cloud compute in a shipping container at the front
Amazon Web Services named Anduril its preferred edge provider and packed AWS Outposts into Anduril's Menace-I data center, pushing cloud compute to the contested front.
USA · Autonomy · Anduril
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Ukraine's F-Drones to build FPV drones in Ohio, the first Kyiv-cleared export to the US military
A Ukrainian FPV-drone maker is the first Kyiv has cleared to export uncrewed weapons to the US military, and it is building them in Ohio.
Ukraine · USA · drones
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Japan eyes Palantir's Maven for SDF command, opening an AI-sovereignty fight
Tokyo is weighing a US firm's software for the core of how its commanders read the battlefield, a first for the Self-Defense Forces that also opens a fight over who controls Japan's military data.
USA · Autonomy · Palantir
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Russia Is Fixing Moscow's Air Defense in Concrete. Ukraine Keeps Changing the Physics.
A new S-400 ring is rising in Moscow's parks just as Kyiv fields balloon-launched, jam-proof weapons built to drift over it. The capital's fortification is an admission, not a solution.
Ukraine · Russia · air defense