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F-110 FrigatePro
Spain's new Aegis frigate — a Navantia-built warship pairing Lockheed Martin's SPY-7 radar and the Aegis combat system with a Spanish-designed integrated mast and a digital-twin "Shipyard 4.0" build. The high-end ASW-and-air-defence successor to the F100.
Europe · Sea · frigate
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MeteorPro
Europe's air-superiority edge — the only operational ramjet air-to-air missile, whose throttleable engine keeps it accelerating to the target for a "no-escape zone" far larger than the AMRAAM's. Built by six European nations for the Typhoon, Rafale and Gripen — and now reaching Ukraine.
Europe · missiles · air-to-air-missile
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DragonFirePro
Britain's drone-frying laser — a directed-energy weapon that burns aerial targets out of the sky for about £10 a shot, accurate enough to hit a £1 coin at a kilometre. After a 2024 high-power trial it won a £316m deal to arm Royal Navy destroyers from 2027.
Europe · air defense · directed-energy
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Type 31 FrigatePro
Britain's cheap, fast-build frigate — a 5,700-tonne general-purpose warship designed to a fixed ~£250m price on a proven Danish hull, lightly armed at first but built with the space and power to grow. The Royal Navy's bet that hull numbers and flexibility beat gold-plating.
Europe · Sea · frigate
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FDI FrigatePro
France's "digital-native" frigate — a 4,500-tonne multi-mission warship with a fixed four-panel AESA radar, Aster air-defence and Exocet anti-ship missiles, and a cyber-hardened combat system designed from the keel up. Built for France and Greece, where it has already fought drones in the Red Sea.
Europe · Sea · frigate
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AjaxPro
Britain's troubled recon vehicle — a tracked, sensor-heavy armoured scout with a 40mm cased-telescoped cannon, meant to be the British Army's digital eyes. Eight years late and beset by noise-and-vibration injuries that hospitalized crews, it finally began entering service in 2025.
Europe · Land · armored-vehicle
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EBRC JaguarPro
France's networked 6×6 cavalry vehicle — the Scorpion-program Jaguar that replaces three older recon and fire-support types with one, mounting a 40mm cased-telescoped cannon and Akeron anti-tank missiles. The digital, missile-armed successor to the AMX-10RC.
Europe · Land · armored-vehicle
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Lynx KF41Pro
Rheinmetall's modular tracked IFV — a clean-sheet fighting vehicle with a digital Lance turret (30 or 35mm cannon + Spike missiles) and a reconfigurable hull. Bought by Hungary, picked by Ukraine as its standard IFV, and headed for Italian co-production.
Europe · Land · ifv
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Panther KF51Pro
Rheinmetall's clean-sheet tank — a Panther built around a 130mm autoloaded gun (50% more reach than the Leopard's 120mm), a three-crew turret, integrated loitering munitions and active protection. Germany's bid to leapfrog the Leopard while the Franco-German MGCS tank stalls.
Europe · Land · main-battle-tank
- H-20Pro China's long-promised stealth bomber — a flying-wing strategic aircraft meant to give Beijing a survivable nuclear-triad air leg and the reach to threaten Guam. Announced in 2016, it has yet to make a confirmed flight; by 2026 it looks less imminent than "frozen." China · Air · stealth-bomber
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Type 075Pro
China's 40,000-ton amphibious "light carrier" — a helicopter assault ship that lands troops, vehicles and air assault forces over the horizon, built in numbers as the maritime spearhead of any future move on Taiwan. The PLAN's amphibious apex.
China · Sea · amphibious-assault-ship
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LyutPro
Ukraine's "Fury" — a cheap combat ground robot that turns a remote-controlled machine gun into a mobile turret, built from commercial-drone parts and fielded by special forces. One has led an assault through a minefield; it is the emblem of Ukraine's armed-UGV surge.
Ukraine · drones · UGV
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TerMITPro
Ukraine's $12,000 robot mule — a small tracked ground drone that hauls 300 kg of ammo and supplies to the trench, evacuates the wounded, or mounts a machine gun, made by the thousands. The workhorse of Ukraine's 2025 ground-robot surge, now heading into German co-production.
Ukraine · drones · UGV
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Uran-9Pro
Russia's much-hyped "robot tank" — a tracked combat UGV bristling with a 30mm cannon, machine gun and anti-tank missiles that flopped on its 2018 Syria debut: it lost control links, couldn't shoot on the move, and its sensors were blinded by buildings. The cautionary tale of the UGV age.
Russia · drones · UGV
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THeMISPro
The West's benchmark battlefield robot — an Estonian tracked "tankette" that swaps payloads to haul cargo, evacuate wounded, scout, defuse bombs or carry a machine gun. The first ground robot in the Lexicon, and the platform that proved the UGV concept across NATO and in Ukraine.
Europe · Ukraine · drones
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AMX-10RCPro
France's 6×6 "gun on wheels" — a fast, 105mm-armed reconnaissance vehicle the press dubbed a light tank when France sent it to Ukraine. Hard-hitting and quick on roads, but thinly armored: a mobile cavalry scout pressed, controversially, toward front-line assault work.
Ukraine · Land · armored-vehicle
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GLSDBPro
A clever bolt-together weapon — a small glide bomb strapped to a surplus rocket motor to give HIMARS a 150 km punch that can curve around defenses and even strike behind the launcher. On paper a bargain deep-strike round; in Ukraine, blunted badly by Russian jamming.
Ukraine · missiles · precision-strike
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9M729Pro
The cruise missile that killed the INF Treaty — a ground-launched, nuclear-capable weapon the US says flies far past the 500 km the treaty banned, and Russia insists stays just under it. The arms-control dispute became its legacy; its reported 2025 combat use in Ukraine is its grim sequel.
Russia · missiles · cruise-missile
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2S7 PionPro
The biggest self-propelled gun in the world — a Soviet 203mm monster firing a 110 kg shell up to 47 km, nuclear-capable, and dragged out of Cold War storage by both Russia and Ukraine for long-range counter-battery duels. Slow and exposed, but it hits like nothing else on the front.
Russia · Ukraine · Land
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Karakurt-classPro
Russia's small, stealthy "missiles-with-a-hull" corvette — an 860-ton Project 22800 ship that carries eight Kalibr or Oniks cruise missiles, the more seaworthy sibling of the Buyan-M. Cheap, heavily armed, and a recurring Ukrainian target.
Russia · Sea · corvette
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P-800 OniksPro
Russia's Mach-2.5 ramjet cruise missile and the Bastion-P coastal batteries that fire it — designed to kill ships, but used relentlessly against Ukrainian land targets because its speed makes it brutally hard to intercept. The parent design of India's BrahMos.
Russia · missiles · anti-ship
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Su-24 FencerPro
The Soviet swing-wing bomber Ukraine turned into its hardest punch — a 1970s tactical strike jet improbably re-armed with British Storm Shadow and French SCALP cruise missiles, which it has used to gut Russia's Black Sea Fleet. The most obsolete airframe became the most potent strike system.
Russia · Ukraine · Air
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Su-27 FlankerPro
The big Soviet air-superiority fighter built to out-range the F-15 — and the parent of the entire Flanker dynasty. Ukraine's pre-war top fighter, now an outclassed but still-fighting workhorse that flew night intercepts in the war's first hours and later flexed into a Western-bomb truck.
Russia · Ukraine · Air
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MiG-29 FulcrumPro
The Soviet lightweight fighter both sides fly — and the one Ukraine famously hot-rodded, bolting American HARM and JDAM and French Hammer onto a 1970s airframe with an iPad in the cockpit. Agile, short-legged, and attrition-heavy, it became an improvised SEAD jet over Ukraine.
Russia · Ukraine · Air