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YJ-21Pro
China's ship-and-air-launched anti-ship hypersonic ballistic missile — a "carrier killer" with a maneuvering glide vehicle fired from Type 055 destroyers and H-6N bombers. The core of the A2/AD picture meant to hold US carriers at risk deep in the Pacific.
China · missiles · hypersonic
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Su-75 CheckmatePro
Russia's "PowerPoint fighter" — a single-engine stealth jet pitched at export buyers as cheap fifth-gen without US strings. Unveiled as a mockup in 2021 with Putin watching, it has still never flown, lost its UAE funding, and has no customer. The story is non-delivery.
Russia · Air · stealth-fighter
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Penicillin (1B75)Pro
A Russian counter-battery system that finds enemy guns without a radar — it just listens and watches. Fusing sound, ground vibration and thermal flash, it fixes a firing position in seconds while emitting nothing, so it can't be detected or jammed like the radars it replaces.
Russia · Space · counter-battery
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Stugna-PPro
Ukraine's home-built tank-killer — a tripod ATGM with one defining trick: the crew fires it by cable from up to 50 m away, in cover, while the launcher sits exposed. Cheaper than a Javelin, it became famous for killing tanks and, on video, shooting down Russian helicopters.
Ukraine · missiles · atgm
- TrembitaPro Ukraine's "buzz bomb" — a deliberately crude, dirt-cheap pulsejet missile built by volunteers to be fired in salvos and mixed with decoys, forcing Russia to spend million-dollar interceptors on a $3,000 target. The loudness is the point. Ukraine · missiles · cruise-missile
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PalianytsiaPro
Ukraine's home-built jet "missile-drone" — a cruise-missile/drone hybrid named after a hearth-bread that doubles as a wartime shibboleth. Built in 18 months to hit the Russian airfields that bomb Ukrainian cities, it sidesteps the range limits on Western weapons.
Ukraine · missiles · deep-strike
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Russia's shadow war reaches Delair, the French drone maker arming Ukraine
France has indicted a Belarusian for espionage at Delair, a Toulouse-area drone maker that supplies Ukraine, days after a botched firebombing of the plant, in a case investigators link to suspected Russian interference.
Europe · Ukraine · Delair
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China Military-Linked Investors Held Secret Pre-IPO Stakes in SpaceX
The Pentagon's main launch and spy-satellite contractor took foreign, military-linked capital while private, a national-security and ownership question now surfacing through court records.
China · USA · Space
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Germany Will Build 2,000 of Ukraine's Combat-Tested Ground Robots
A Munich-Kyiv joint venture moves a frontline-proven Ukrainian war robot onto a German assembly line, Europe's largest ground-robot order to date.
Ukraine · Europe · Autonomy
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Mohajer-10Pro
Iran's would-be answer to the MQ-9 Reaper — a large reconnaissance-strike drone unveiled in 2023 with bold claims of 2,000 km range, 24-hour endurance and a 300 kg payload. The catch: almost none of it has been independently verified, and a piston engine caps the ambition.
Iran · drones · male-uav
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Wing Loong-3Pro
China's biggest hunter-killer drone — a long-range MALE UAV with a claimed 10,000 km reach, 40-hour endurance and 16 weapons a sortie, and the first Wing Loong that can shoot back at other aircraft. It is the spearhead of China's cut-price, no-strings drone exports.
China · drones · male-uav
- Castelion BlackbeardPro A startup's bet that hypersonics can be cheap. Castelion — founded by ex-SpaceX engineers — is building Blackbeard, a Mach 5+ strike missile aimed at ~$300k a round and 500 a year, applying the drone war's "affordable mass" logic to a weapon legacy primes sell for $40M. USA · missiles · hypersonic
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Sukhoi S-70 Okhotnik-BPro
Russia's heavy stealth flying-wing combat drone, built as a Su-57 "loyal wingman." Its defining moment was a humiliation: in October 2024 a Russian fighter shot down its own out-of-control Okhotnik over Ukraine — handing Kyiv the wreckage, Western chips inside and all.
Russia · drones · ucav
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Helsing CA-1 EuropaPro
Helsing's AI-piloted combat drone — Europe's bid for sovereign autonomous airpower. One low-observable jet, flown by the Centaur AI pilot, in a strike version (CA-1KA) and an escort-jammer version (CA-1EA) pitched as the European answer to the Growler. Nothing has flown yet.
Europe · drones · CCA
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FH-97APro
China's answer to the loyal-wingman race — the FH-97A, a stealthy jet-powered drone meant to fly alongside the J-20 as sensor, shooter, decoy and "missile truck." It looks much like America's XQ-58 Valkyrie; how far past the mockup stage it has flown is the open question.
China · drones · CCA
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Bavar-373Pro
Iran's flagship indigenous long-range SAM — an S-300/S-400-class system built to defend Tehran and its nuclear sites after sanctions delayed Russia's S-300. Iran claims it rivals the S-400; the 2025–26 air wars tested those claims hard.
Iran · air defense · sam
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Magura V7Pro
The larger, missile-armed evolution of Ukraine's Magura naval drone — a sea drone that carries AIM-9 Sidewinders and, in May 2025, became the first uncrewed vessel to shoot down crewed fighter jets, downing two Russian Su-30s in the Black Sea.
Ukraine · drones · USV
- Jiu TianPro China's "flying aircraft carrier" — a 16-tonne jet drone built to disgorge a swarm of 100-plus small drones from a honeycomb belly bay. The air-launched face of China industrializing drone mass; it first flew in December 2025, and the swarm part has never been shown working. China · drones · drone-mothership
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SitaWarePro
The quiet incumbent of military command software — a Danish COTS suite that became the de-facto NATO land-C2 standard, running from national headquarters down to the dismounted soldier in 45-plus armies. In 2024 NATO itself picked it as its Future Land C2.
Europe · software · c2
- Tirada-2Pro A secretive Russian ground system built to switch off communications satellites — jamming the relay birds that armies (and Ukraine) depend on. It is the counter to the transparent battlefield: if sensing is the new deterrent, this is the attempt to blind it. Ukraine drone-killed one in January 2026. Russia · Space · electronic-warfare
- Star-Navi XRAM-CPro A Chinese firm sells radar-stealth "by the kilogram" — Star-Navi's XRAM-C spray-on radar-absorbing coating, off-the-shelf in 1/5/10 kg tubs. The claimed ~3 dB cut is modest, but commoditizing even a small signature reduction for cheap mass drones is the story. China · Space · stealth
- ESU-TZPro Russia's long-troubled attempt at a digital battle-management system for the tactical level — the "Sozvezdie system," meant to fuse reconnaissance, command and fires across a brigade. The adversary mirror to Ukraine's Delta, and a case study in why Russian C2 lagged in Ukraine. Russia · software · c2
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Buyan-MPro
Russia's small, shallow-draft Kalibr-armed missile corvette — a ~950-tonne hull that can transit inland rivers between fleets and lob land-attack cruise missiles 1,500 km. It fired the first combat Kalibr at Syria in 2015 and has been a principal platform for strikes on Ukraine.
Russia · Sea · corvette
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ICEYE SAR ConstellationPro
The world's largest radar-satellite constellation — Finnish microsatellites that see through cloud, darkness and camouflage. It is Ukraine's crowdfunded "People's Satellite," feeding nearly 6,000 radar images to Ukrainian targeting cells — and now shadowed in orbit by Russia.
Europe · Ukraine · Space