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  1. KhorramshahrPro Iran's heaviest liquid-fuel medium-range ballistic missile family, derived from the North Korean Musudan, carrying large conventional warheads or submunitions out to ~2,000 km and assessed capable of 3,000 km with a lighter payload — a centrepiece of IRGC strategic strike and the subject of. Iran · missiles · ballistic-missile
  2. Taurus KEPD 350Pro A German-Swedish stealthy air-launched cruise missile designed to destroy hardened and buried targets from over 500 km, carrying the unique MEPHISTO tandem warhead and serving Germany, Spain, and South Korea. Europe · missiles · cruise-missile
  3. NLAWPro Shoulder-fired, single-use anti-tank missile with overfly top-attack and fire-and-forget PLOS guidance — the weapon that defined Ukraine's close-quarters tank-killing in 2022. Europe · Ukraine · missiles
  4. Anduril RoadrunnerPro A reusable, jet-powered vertical-takeoff interceptor built to hunt drones at an order-of-magnitude lower cost than legacy missiles — and land again if the threat evaporates. USA · air defense · counter-UAS
  5. David's SlingPro Israel's mid-tier mobile air and missile defense system — a hit-to-kill interceptor designed to defeat short-range ballistic missiles, large rockets, cruise missiles and aircraft, sitting between Iron Dome and the Arrow family and increasingly central to Israel's layered shield. Israel · air defense · missile-defense
  6. FIM-92 StingerPro The FIM-92 Stinger is a combat-proven shoulder-fired infrared-homing air-defense missile that has evolved from a Cold War MANPADS into a modern counter-drone weapon, now being refurbished, rebuilt and replaced through a multi-track programme to keep it operational into the 2030s. USA · Ukraine · air defense
  7. MarderPro The West German Cold War infantry fighting vehicle—a tracked, 20 mm–armed troop carrier that, after decades as the Bundeswehr’s backbone, has re-emerged as a refurbished assault workhorse for Ukraine, melding Rheinmetall’s deep industrial capacity with a simple, survivable design. Europe · Ukraine · Land
  8. Mirage 2000Pro France's delta-wing, fly-by-wire multirole fighter — 601 built, flown by nine air forces, and now intercepting Russian cruise missiles and pounding frontline targets over Ukraine. Europe · Ukraine · Air
  9. Tu-22M3 BackfirePro Russia's supersonic variable-geometry long-range bomber — a stand-off launch platform for the near-unstoppable Kh-22/Kh-32 heavy missile, now contracting under the weight of attrition, precision-strike inadequacy, and a stalled modernization program. Russia · Air · bomber
  10. Tu-95MS BearPro Russia's Cold-War-era intercontinental turboprop bomber — the primary launch platform for Kh-101 cruise missiles and the air leg of its nuclear triad, now irreplaceable and facing historic attrition. Russia · Air · bomber
  11. Europe's Patriot alternative runs on a $700,000 Ukrainian missile Britain, France and Germany agreed to back an anti-ballistic system built around Ukraine's FP-7.x interceptor, a $700,000 missile that just hit 25 km in testing, while German industry showed its own cheap-intercept hardware at ILA Berlin. Ukraine · Europe · air defense
  12. Five Senate bills move to keep humans in command of Pentagon AI Five Senate bills in two weeks would write human control over autonomous weapons into statute, the legislative answer to Trump's order to speed military AI adoption. USA · Policy · Anthropic
  13. Shield AI V-BATPro Shield AI's ducted-fan VTOL tail-sitter – a runway-independent ISR and targeting drone that proved it can operate deep inside Russian electronic warfare and cue precision fires for Ukrainian forces. USA · Ukraine · drones
  14. Bayraktar AkinciPro Turkey's heavy-strike twin-turboprop UCAV — a 24-hour HALE platform that carries cruise missiles, air-launched ballistic weapons and an AESA radar, and the cornerstone of a 16-country export franchise built on aggressive co-production offers. Europe · drones · ucav
  15. Sea BabyPro Ukraine's SBU-developed multi-purpose uncrewed surface vessel — from one-way ramming strikes on the Kerch Bridge and Black Sea Fleet ships to a modular platform firing rockets, missiles, and mines, culminating in the world's first underwater drone attack on a submarine. Ukraine · drones · USV
  16. DF-21DPro China's pioneering land-based anti-ship ballistic missile — the "carrier killer" that forced the U.S. Navy to rethink its force structure, holding aircraft carriers at risk out to 1,500 km. China · missiles · ballistic-missile
  17. Helsing HX-2 Germany's software-defined AI one-way attack drone — an electrically propelled loitering munition with 100 km range and on-board AI for jamming-resistant precision strikes, fielded by Ukraine and under evaluation by NATO armies. Europe · Ukraine · missiles
  18. Geran-3Pro Russia's first jet-powered Shahed — a turbojet bolted onto a Geran-2 airframe to outrun cheap interceptors. It worked well enough to prove the concept and badly enough to be cancelled: Moscow halted production in August 2026 in favour of the purpose-built Geran-4 and Geran-5. Russia · Iran · missiles
  19. LyutyiPro Ukraine’s primary strategic one-way attack drone — a 2,000 km-range pusher-prop system that has carried the war to Russia’s energy heartland, hitting refineries and military plants from the Caspian Sea to the Komi Republic. Ukraine · missiles · one-way-attack-drone
  20. Iron BeamPro Israel’s first operational high-power laser air-defense system — a 100 kW directed-energy weapon designed to intercept rockets, mortar bombs and drones at a fraction of the cost of kinetic interceptors, now woven into the Iron Dome network. Israel · air defense · laser
  21. Iron DomePro Israel's battle-proven mobile system for intercepting short-range rockets, artillery shells, and drones — the bottom tier of a multi-layered air defense network, now also fielded by the US Marine Corps as MRIC. Israel · air defense · cram
  22. S-300Pro The Soviet-built S-300 family of long-range SAMs — a road-mobile system that continues to anchor Ukraine's air defense and has been repurposed by Russia for ground strikes in the Ukraine war. Russia · Ukraine · air defense
  23. BM-21 GradPro The Soviet-era 122 mm Grad is the world’s most ubiquitous multiple rocket launcher — 40-tube burst fire, truck-mobile, and a massed-fire mainstay in both Russian and Ukrainian arsenals, now reliant on North Korean and Czech-brokered 122 mm ammunition pipelines. Russia · Ukraine · Land
  24. B-2 SpiritPro The U.S. Air Force's flying-wing stealth bomber — the world's only operational stealth bomber, sole carrier of the 30,000-lb GBU-57/B bunker buster, and the tip of the conventional and nuclear penetrating-strike spear. USA · Air · stealth
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