Russia · Ukraine · Air · close-air-support · ground-attack · soviet · twin-engine · armored-cockpit · su-25Pro
The Su-25 Frogfoot is a heavily armored Soviet-era close air support jet, now flying for both Russia and Ukraine. Rugged, simple, and armed with a massive 30mm cannon and up to 4,000 kg of ordnance, it has become the most attrition-heavy fixed-wing type of the Russia–Ukraine war, adapting from.
Europe · electronic warfare · Helsing · hensoldt · CA-1 Europa
Helsing's CA-1EA drone would jam enemy radars 100 km ahead of strike packages by 2031, a role European air forces currently borrow from US Navy Growlers.
Iran · missiles · ballistic-missile · marv · solid-propellant · precision-strike · irgcPro
Iran's most advanced operational ballistic missile — a solid-propellant MRBM with a powered maneuvering re-entry vehicle, marketed by Tehran as "hypersonic" and combat-tested against Israeli defenses in 2024 and 2025.
Israel · Air Defense · ballistic-missile-defense · exoatmospheric · hit-to-kill · IAI · Boeing · arrow-3 · air-missile-defensePro
Israel's exoatmospheric hit-to-kill ballistic missile interceptor, jointly developed with the U.S., combat-proven against Houthi and Iranian missiles, and now fielded by Germany as the first European upper-tier system.
Europe · Ukraine · Air Defense · spaag · counter-drone · C-UAS · GermanyPro
The Cold War-vintage twin-35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun revived as Ukraine's cost-effective counter to massed Shahed drone attacks, and the weapon system that forced Western armies to rethink short-range air defense.
Russia · missiles · glide-bomb · guidance-kit · standoff-weapon · fab-bomb · umpkPro
Russia's cheap, mass-produced glide-bomb conversion kit — turned Soviet-era free-fall bombs into standoff weapons and became the defining Russian strike capability of the war in Ukraine.
Russia · missiles · ballistic-missile · srbm · quasi-ballistic · nuclear-capable · hwasong-11a · kn-23 · north-koreaPro
North Korea's solid-fuel quasi-ballistic short-range missile — an Iskander lookalike manufactured at the February 11 Plant, transferred to Russia, and combat-proven in Ukraine with evolving accuracy.
Russia · missiles · irbm · mirv · dual-capable · road-mobile · solid-fuel · hypersonic · strategicPro
Russia’s road-mobile, MIRV-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile — a post-INF dual-use weapon employed sparingly for strategic messaging rather than battlefield effect.
Ukraine · missiles · cruise-missile · deep-strike · Fire PointPro
Ukraine's homegrown deep-strike cruise missile — a 3,000 km-range, heavy-warhead missile built for mass production at low cost to hit Russian military-industrial targets.
Ukraine · missiles · anti-ship · land-attack · cruise-missile · Neptune · luch-design-bureauPro
Ukraine's indigenous subsonic cruise missile, developed for coastal defense but now a deep-strike land-attack weapon. It sank the Russian cruiser Moskva in 2022 and, in its Long Neptune form, claims a 1,000 km reach.
Ukraine · Land · spg · howitzer · self-propelled · 155mm · wheeledPro
Ukraine's indigenous 155 mm wheeled self-propelled howitzer — built to NATO caliber, produced at world-record rates, and combat-proven from the Snake Island shelling to the front lines of the Donbas.
Russia · Land · thermobaric · mlrs · heavy-flamethrowerPro
Russia's T-72-based 220 mm thermobaric multiple rocket launcher — the Solntsepyok is a short-range assault-breaching weapon that incinerates fortifications and has become a prime target for Ukrainian drone hunters.
China · Air · stealth · multirole · fifth-generation · carrier-capable · exportPro
China's second fifth-generation stealth fighter — the land-based J-35A "Cloud Dragon" — complements the J-20, brings cross-service carrier capability, and marks Beijing's push to break the Western monopoly on fifth-generation airpower exports.
USA · Air · stealth · bomber · nuclear · long-range strike · usaf · northrop-grummanPro
The B-21 Raider is the U.S. Air Force's next-generation penetrating long-range strike stealth bomber — nuclear and conventional capable, designed for the most contested environments, and set to replace the B-1B and B-2 fleets alongside upgraded B-52s.
USA · Air · stealth · air-superiority · fifth-generation · fighter · usafPro
The world's first operational fifth-generation fighter — an all-aspect stealth, supercruise, thrust-vectoring air-dominance jet that remains the US Air Force's premier air-superiority asset, from the 2014 ISIS debut to the 2023 spy-balloon kill and the 2025–26 Iran crisis.
Russia · Air · strike · fighter-bomber · glide-bomb · umpkPro
Russia’s heavy strike fighter-bomber — a side-by-side two-seat Su-27 derivative that became the principal launch platform for UMPK glide bombs over Ukraine and the most heavily contested Russian combat jet.
Ukraine · Russia · electronic warfare · Fire Point · Flamingo · VNIIR-Progress · Kometa
Kyiv's homegrown cruise missile returned to Cheboksary and hit VNIIR-Progress, the sanctioned producer of Kometa anti-jamming antennas that steer Russia's drones, missiles and glide bombs through Ukrainian jamming.
Ukraine · Russia · drones · Chonhar · Crimea · Behemoth · FP-2 · logistics
Ukraine hit the Henichesk to Arabat Spit bridge days after twice halting Chonhar, cutting two road routes into occupied southern Kherson and squeezing supply lines for Russia's southern grouping.
Europe · USA · Policy · himars · Lockheed Martin · france · FLP-T
Lockheed Martin is promising France HIMARS launchers in 2028, ahead of the country's own long-range fires candidates, weeks before Paris picks its LRU replacement.
USA · Iran · Naval · Saronic · Task Force 59
A Task Force 59 Corsair recovered two Army aviators after Iran downed their Apache near the Strait of Hormuz, the first rescue of personnel at sea by an uncrewed vessel.
Ukraine · Russia · Syrskyi · Fire Point · Flamingo · Neptune · deep strike · long-range strike
Syrskyi's new Rocket Forces and Artillery concept commits Ukraine to mass-producing its own missiles out to 2,000 km. The real target is dependence on weapons Kyiv cannot build, buy freely, or fire without permission.
Ukraine · Europe · Air Defense · Alta Ares · counter-drone · shahed
Alta Ares, a Franco-Ukrainian maker of AI drone interceptors used in Ukraine, raised €50 million to scale production as demand for cheap air defense climbs.
Israel · drones · Palladyne AI · IAI · Harpy · Harop · loitering munitions
Palladyne AI signed an MoU for up-to-10-year exclusive US rights to make and market IAI's combat-proven Harpy, Harop and Mini-Harpy loitering munitions, onshoring them as the Pentagon scales munition buys.
Europe · Funding · ICEYE · sar · Space
ICEYE closed a Series F worth over €1bn at a €10bn-plus valuation, a record European spacetech round, to scale the radar constellation Ukraine already uses to find Russian targets.