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Europe · missiles · cruise-missile · stand-off · deep-strike · bunker-buster · penetrator · german-swedishPro

Taurus KEPD 350

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 · stand-off · deep-strike · bunker-buster · penetrator · german-swedish
Europe · Ukraine · missiles · anti-tank · atgm · shoulder-fired · top-attack · plos · saab · sweden · UKPro

NLAW

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 · anti-tank · atgm · shoulder-fired · top-attack · plos · saab · sweden · UK
USA · Air Defense · counter-UAS · loitering-interceptor · AndurilPro

Anduril Roadrunner

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 · loitering-interceptor · Anduril
Israel · Air Defense · missile-defense · Rafael · raytheonPro

David's Sling

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 · Rafael · raytheon
USA · Ukraine · Air Defense · manpads · infrared · raytheonPro

FIM-92 Stinger

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 · manpads · infrared · raytheon
Europe · Ukraine · Land · ifv · tracked · rhinemetall · german · ukraine-aid · cold-warPro

Marder

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 · ifv · tracked · rhinemetall · german · ukraine-aid · cold-war
Europe · Ukraine · Air · delta-wing · multirole · fourth-generation · interceptor · strike · export · miragePro

Mirage 2000

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 · delta-wing · multirole · fourth-generation · interceptor · strike · export · mirage
Russia · Air · bomber · supersonic · missile-carrier · backfire · kh-22Pro

Tu-22M3 Backfire

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 · supersonic · missile-carrier · backfire · kh-22
Russia · Air · bomber · strategic-bomber · cruise-missile-carrier · tupolevPro

Tu-95MS Bear

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 · strategic-bomber · cruise-missile-carrier · tupolev
Ukraine · Europe · Air Defense · Fire Point · FREYJA · FP-7.X · patriot · ILA Berlin · Diehl Defence · Rafael

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 · Fire Point · FREYJA · FP-7.X · patriot · ILA Berlin · Diehl Defence · Rafael
USA · Policy · Anthropic · Pentagon

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 · Pentagon
USA · Ukraine · drones · vtol · duct-fan · isr · targeting · Hivemind · Autonomy · ew-resistant · Naval · expeditionaryPro

Shield AI V-BAT

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 · vtol · duct-fan · isr · targeting · Hivemind · Autonomy · ew-resistant · Naval · expeditionary
Europe · drones · ucav · hale · turkey · baykar · strike · istarPro

Bayraktar Akinci

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 · hale · turkey · baykar · strike · istar
Ukraine · drones · USV · naval-drone · sea-baby · SBUPro

Sea Baby

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 · naval-drone · sea-baby · SBU
China · missiles · ballistic-missile · anti-ship · asbm · pla-rocket-forcePro

DF-21D

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 · anti-ship · asbm · pla-rocket-force
Europe · Ukraine · missiles · loitering-munition · ai-enabled · strike-drone · swarm-capable · HelsingPro

Helsing HX-2

The Helsing HX-2 is a German, AI-enabled, swarming loitering munition — an electrically propelled X-wing drone built for mass, precision, and jamming-resistant deep strikes, now in Ukrainian service and under European and US evaluation.

Europe · Ukraine · missiles · loitering-munition · ai-enabled · strike-drone · swarm-capable · Helsing
Russia · Iran · missiles · shahed · loitering-munition · one-way-attack · turbojet-drone · geran-familyPro

Geran-3

Russia's jet-powered evolution of the Shahed one-way attack drone — a turbojet engine, higher speed, and jam-resistant navigation designed to overwhelm mobile air defenses, now in experimental combat over Ukraine.

Russia · Iran · missiles · shahed · loitering-munition · one-way-attack · turbojet-drone · geran-family
Ukraine · missiles · one-way-attack-drone · loitering-munition · deep-strike · drones · long-range · piston-enginePro

Lyutyi

Ukraine’s workhorse long-range one-way attack drone — a piston-prop deep-strike design that has systematically hit Russian oil refineries and defence plants at 1,000–1,700 km, reshaping the strategic cost equation of the war.

Ukraine · missiles · one-way-attack-drone · loitering-munition · deep-strike · drones · long-range · piston-engine
Israel · Air Defense · laser · directed-energy · iron-beam · RafaelPro

Iron Beam

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 · directed-energy · iron-beam · Rafael
Israel · Air Defense · cram · counter-rocket · Rafael · tamirPro

Iron Dome

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 · counter-rocket · Rafael · tamir
Russia · Ukraine · Air Defense · sam · soviet-era · almaz-anteyPro

S-300

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 · sam · soviet-era · almaz-antey
Russia · Ukraine · Land · mlrs · artillery · soviet · truck-mounted · rocket-artilleryPro

BM-21 Grad

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 · mlrs · artillery · soviet · truck-mounted · rocket-artillery
USA · Air · stealth · bomber · nuclear-capable · penetrator · strategic · heavy-bomberPro

B-2 Spirit

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 · bomber · nuclear-capable · penetrator · strategic · heavy-bomber
Russia · Air · interceptor · kinzhal · r-37m · mig-31Pro

MiG-31 Foxhound

The MiG-31 Foxhound is Russia’s Mach 2.83 interceptor and sole airborne carrier of the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missile — an irreplaceable Cold War asset that dominates high-altitude combat and triggers nationwide alerts with every sortie, yet cannot be built anew.

Russia · Air · interceptor · kinzhal · r-37m · mig-31
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