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Kornet

Russia's primary man-portable anti-tank guided missile — a SACLOS laser-beam-rider with a tandem-HEAT warhead, fielded since 1998 and exported widely to over 20 countries and non-state actors.

Russia · missiles · atgm · anti-tank · saclos · laser-beam-rider
USA · missiles · air-to-air · amraam · raytheon · bvr · nasamsPro

AIM-120 AMRAAM

The AIM-120 AMRAAM is the West's standard active-radar beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile, fielded on 14 fighter types and 42 nations, with a combat record stretching from 1992 to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

USA · missiles · air-to-air · amraam · raytheon · bvr · nasams
Europe · missiles · cruise-missile · air-launched · stand-off · bunker-buster · low-observable · mbdaPro

Storm Shadow

The British-French Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG is a stealthy, air-launched cruise missile designed to destroy hardened targets from stand-off range, and the weapon that gave Ukraine its first long-range deep-strike capability.

Europe · missiles · cruise-missile · air-launched · stand-off · bunker-buster · low-observable · mbda
USA · missiles · cruise-missile · land-attack · anti-ship · subsonic · tl-amPro

Tomahawk

The BGM-109 Tomahawk is the US Navy’s primary subsonic land-attack cruise missile — a precision stand-off weapon launched from ships and submarines and used in every major US conflict since 1991.

USA · missiles · cruise-missile · land-attack · anti-ship · subsonic · tl-am
USA · missiles · atgm · anti-tank · fire-and-forget · top-attackPro

Javelin

The FGM-148 Javelin is a man-portable fire-and-forget top-attack anti-tank guided missile — a Raytheon–Lockheed Martin joint venture, the symbolic anti-armor weapon of the war in Ukraine, and the NATO-standard infantry ATGM fielded by more than 20 operators worldwide.

USA · missiles · atgm · anti-tank · fire-and-forget · top-attack
China · Air Defense · sam · casic · hq-22 · fk-3Pro

HQ-22

China's medium/long-range surface-to-air missile system — a cheaper complement to the HQ-9, exported as the FK-3 and marking China’s first strategic SAM in Europe with its sale to Serbia.

China · Air Defense · sam · casic · hq-22 · fk-3
China · Air Defense · sam · short-range · casic · fm-2000Pro

HQ-17

China's indigenised short-range air defence system, derived from the Russian Tor-M1, providing mobile point and manoeuvre-unit protection against low-altitude threats.

China · Air Defense · sam · short-range · casic · fm-2000
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HQ-16

China's medium-range SAM family — vertical-launch HQ-16A/B, export LY-80, and naval HHQ-16 — bridging the gap between long-range HQ-9 and SHORAD.

China · Air Defense · sam
Russia · Air Defense · sam · almaz-anteyPro

Buk-M3

Russia’s latest tracked medium-range SAM — a 6-missile canisterized TELAR with active-radar fire-and-forget interceptors, fielded to thicken the lower tier of its integrated air defense.

Russia · Air Defense · sam · almaz-antey
Russia · Air Defense · sam · shorad · almaz-antey · tor-m2Pro

Tor-M2

Russia's autonomous short-range air-defense system — a single-vehicle, tracked SAM that carries 16 vertical-launch missiles for point defense against aircraft, cruise missiles, and drones, and a staple of Moscow's counter-drone shield.

Russia · Air Defense · sam · shorad · almaz-antey · tor-m2
Russia · Air Defense · shorad · gun-missile · pantsirPro

Pantsir-S1

Russia's mobile short-range gun-and-missile point defense system — designed to shield high-value assets from aircraft, cruise missiles, and drones, and both heavily used and increasingly targeted in Ukraine.

Russia · Air Defense · shorad · gun-missile · pantsir
USA · Air Defense · ballistic-missile-defense · thaad · Lockheed Martin · raytheonPro

THAAD

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense — a wheeled, hit-to-kill interceptor system that destroys short- and medium-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase, both inside and just above the atmosphere.

USA · Air Defense · ballistic-missile-defense · thaad · Lockheed Martin · raytheon
Europe · Air Defense · sam · eurosam · mbda · aster-30Pro

SAMP/T

The Franco-Italian SAMP/T (Mamba) is Europe’s only long-range surface-to-air missile system with proven anti-ballistic-missile capability, fielding the Aster 30 interceptor and offering a road-mobile, 360° defense against aircraft, cruise missiles, and tactical ballistic missiles.

Europe · Air Defense · sam · eurosam · mbda · aster-30
USA · Air Defense · sam · nasams · amraam · kongberg · raytheonPro

NASAMS

The NASAMS is a medium-range, distributed, networked air-defense system jointly developed by Norway and the United States, built around the ground-launched AMRAAM and proven in combat in Ukraine.

USA · Air Defense · sam · nasams · amraam · kongberg · raytheon
USA · Air · strategic-bomber · nuclear-capable · heavy-bomber · cruise-missile-carrier · long-range · BoeingPro

B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is the United States Air Force's longest-serving strategic heavy bomber — a subsonic, eight-engine platform that has carried both nuclear and conventional payloads on every major American air campaign since Vietnam and is now slated to fly into the 2050s via the.

USA · Air · strategic-bomber · nuclear-capable · heavy-bomber · cruise-missile-carrier · long-range · Boeing
China · Land · mlrs · rocket-artillery · ballistic-missile · deep-fires · taiwan-straitPro

PHL-191

China's modular, long-range wheeled multiple-launch rocket system — built to strike targets up to 500 km across the Taiwan Strait with a mix of guided rockets and Fire Dragon tactical ballistic missiles, and the keystone of the PLAGF's deep-fires modernization.

China · Land · mlrs · rocket-artillery · ballistic-missile · deep-fires · taiwan-strait
Russia · Land · rocket-artillery · mlrs · smerch · tornado-sPro

BM-30 Smerch

Russia’s 300 mm heavy multiple-launch rocket system — the BM-30 Smerch and its modernised GLONASS-guided Tornado-S successor — delivering area saturation and precision deep fires out to 120 km.

Russia · Land · rocket-artillery · mlrs · smerch · tornado-s
USA · Land · himars · mlrs · precision-strike · rocket-artillery · Lockheed MartinPro

M142 HIMARS

The United States' wheeled, C-130-transportable precision rocket artillery system — battlefield-proven in Ukraine and known as the "sniper of artillery," firing GMLRS, ATACMS, and the future PrSM.

USA · Land · himars · mlrs · precision-strike · rocket-artillery · Lockheed Martin
China · Sea · aircraft-carrier · catobar · emals · PLANPro

Type 003 Fujian

China's first indigenously designed CATOBAR carrier, the Type 003 Fujian, is conventionally powered yet launches aircraft via electromagnetic catapults—a first for any non-US navy.

China · Sea · aircraft-carrier · catobar · emals · PLAN
Russia · Sea · aircraft-carrier · stobar · kuznetsov · project-1143-5Pro

Admiral Kuznetsov

Russia's sole aircraft carrier — a heavy, conventionally powered STOBAR ship designed in the 1980s, now crippled by repeated accidents and likely headed for the scrapyard.

Russia · Sea · aircraft-carrier · stobar · kuznetsov · project-1143-5
USA · Sea · aircraft-carrier · supercarrier · nuclear · emals · us-navyPro

Gerald R. Ford-class

The world's largest warship — a nuclear-powered supercarrier with electromagnetic catapults, built to sustain a ~75-aircraft air wing and project power globally, and the centerpiece of the US Navy's 11-carrier fleet.

USA · Sea · aircraft-carrier · supercarrier · nuclear · emals · us-navy
China · Air · aewc · airborne-surveillance · early-warning · turbopropPro

KJ-500

China's most numerous modern AEW&C platform — a Y-9-based turboprop carrying a fixed three-array AESA radar for 360° coverage, in service with both the PLAAF and PLANAF and reportedly sought by Pakistan.

China · Air · aewc · airborne-surveillance · early-warning · turboprop
Russia · Air · aewc · il-76 · russian-air-force · a-50 · mainstayPro

A-50 Mainstay

Russia's 1980s-era AEW&C aircraft on the Il-76 airframe, known for its rotating Shmel radome—a fleet severely diminished by two combat losses in early 2024.

Russia · Air · aewc · il-76 · russian-air-force · a-50 · mainstay
USA · Air · aewc · Boeing · mesa · aesa · e-7Pro

E-7 Wedgetail

The E-7 Wedgetail is Australia's and the US's next-generation AEW&C aircraft, built on a Boeing 737-700 airframe and equipped with a fixed MESA AESA radar — the chosen successor to the E-3 Sentry across NATO and a growing allied fleet.

USA · Air · aewc · Boeing · mesa · aesa · e-7
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