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USAPro

MQ-4C Triton

The MQ-4C Triton is Northrop Grumman's unarmed, high-altitude maritime surveillance aircraft, operated by the U.S. Navy and Australia alongside crewed P-8A Poseidon aircraft.

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ChinaPro

Sharp Claw 1 / Sharp Claw 2

Sharp Claw 1 and Sharp Claw 2 are NORINCO ground robots pairing a small tracked reconnaissance vehicle with a larger 6×6 carrier. Sharp Claw 1 entered Chinese army service in 2020; combat use is not publicly established.

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USAPro

Boeing Orca XLUUV

Boeing Orca is the US Navy's diesel-electric extra-large uncrewed undersea vehicle, developed for mine warfare and modular undersea missions.

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USAPro

FireAnt (Swarmbotics AI)

FireAnt is Swarmbotics AI's small autonomous ground vehicle for networked reconnaissance, electronic warfare and mission payloads, undergoing US Army experimentation with the 1st Cavalry Division.

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UkrainePro

D-21-12R armed ground robot

The D-21-12R is a Ukrainian remotely operated armed ground robot combining FRDM Group's D-21 wheeled platform with a D-12 weapon module carrying a 12.7 mm machine gun.

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USAPro

Saildrone Surveyor

Surveyor is Saildrone's 20-meter uncrewed vessel for ocean mapping and surveillance; a 2026 exercise tested a JAGM launcher on one hull.

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UkrainePro

Swarmer Platform

Swarmer Platform is Ukrainian-developed software for coordinating groups of drones through onboard autonomy and a ground control interface.

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UkrainePro

Ratel H and M

Ratel H and M are reusable Ukrainian ground robots for ammunition delivery, cargo transport and casualty evacuation.

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UkrainePro

The Repair Clock Behind Ukraine’s 45% Refinery Claim

Kyiv's strike ledger overstates the Russian refining capacity offline at one time. The harder metric is whether repeat strikes keep plants broken faster than Moscow can repair them, and that is the leverage Trump wants frozen.

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UkrainePro

Gnom UGV

The Gnom is a Ukrainian family of compact, remotely controlled unmanned ground vehicles developed by Temerland for reconnaissance, fire support, logistics, evacuation, remote mining and drone carriage.

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ChinaPro

CH-6 Rainbow

China's large twin-turbofan reconnaissance and strike UAV, designed as a faster, higher-end complement to the propeller-driven Rainbow export family but not confirmed in service.

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IranPro

Ababil UAV family

The Ababil is a long-running Iranian family of tactical drones spanning reusable reconnaissance, target and armed aircraft, as well as the one-way Qasef derivatives supplied to Yemen's Houthis.

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RussiaPro

Orlan-30

The Orlan-30 is a Russian fixed-wing reconnaissance UAV that adds laser target designation to the Orlan family, linking aerial surveillance directly to guided artillery and air-launched weapons.

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USAPro

MQ-1C Gray Eagle

The MQ-1C Gray Eagle is the US Army's armed medium-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft, combining persistent surveillance, targeting, electronic warfare and Hellfire strike capabilities.

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UkrainePro

Skyeton Raybird

Ukraine's small, petrol-powered long-endurance tactical UAS, combining 24-hour-class endurance with modular ISR payloads, autonomous flight and an increasingly international production base.

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UkrainePro

Leleka-100

Ukraine's battery-powered fixed-wing tactical reconnaissance UAV, used at brigade level to locate targets, adjust artillery fire and maintain surveillance under electronic-warfare pressure.

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UkrainePro

Ukrspecsystems SHARK

Ukraine's SHARK is an electric fixed-wing reconnaissance UAV used for target acquisition and fire correction, with the SHARK-M extending endurance, datalink range and support for networked strike drones.

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IsraelPro

Hermes 450

The Hermes 450 is an Israeli tactical long-endurance uncrewed aircraft used for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike missions, with service across several continents.

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USAPro

Anduril Dive-LD

Anduril Dive-LD is a US large autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long-endurance undersea surveillance, mine countermeasures, seabed mapping and modular payload delivery.

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Europe

Arkeus Adds a UK Workshop for the Sensor It Already Flew in Europe

Arkeus and Tanglewood Group will build and sustain the Warden hyperspectral sensor in Malvern, England. The Melbourne startup already sells to the Australian Army and the US Department of War, and flew Warden in Europe last November. It still has no British customer.

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Ukraine

The Last Imported Part in Ukraine's Bars Drone Is Its Engine

Ukraine's Bars strike drone is now more than 74% domestically made, and the one part it still buys abroad is the turbojet. A Ukrainian engine has passed final tests. The engine, not the airframe, is what caps output on both sides of the drone war.

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USAPro

GARC

GARC is a compact American uncrewed surface vessel developed by BlackSea Technologies for modular reconnaissance, sensing and strike missions, and first used in a US Navy live-fire exercise at RIMPAC 2026.

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USAPro

Anduril Omen

Anduril Omen is a runway-independent Group 3 autonomous aircraft co-developed with EDGE Group, combining vertical launch and recovery with wing-borne cruise and a hybrid-electric powertrain.

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USAPro

Anduril Copperhead

Anduril Copperhead is a family of compact autonomous underwater vehicles and expendable armed variants designed to extend uncrewed sensing and strike networks into the undersea domain.

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UkrainePro

WINFLY Spider

The WINFLY Spider is a reusable Ukrainian interceptor UAV that catches hostile drones with a replaceable net, offering a low-cost alternative to expendable ramming interceptors.

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EuropePro

Saab A3-001

Saab's A3-001 is a proposed stealthy, supersonic collaborative combat aircraft intended to accompany the Gripen E/F, with a first demonstrator flight planned for 2027.

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ChinaPro

AJX-002

The AJX-002 is a Chinese extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle revealed in 2025, potentially intended for persistent surveillance, mining or blockade missions, but with no official specifications or confirmed operational status.

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UkrainePro

Alexa Spatium

Ukraine's first domestically built jet-powered interceptor drone, codified in August 2026 to close the speed gap that Russia's turbojet Geran-4 and Geran-5 opened over the cheap propeller interceptors that had been beating the Shahed.

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IranPro

Shahed-129

Iran's reusable medium-altitude, long-endurance ISR and strike drone, designed for persistent surveillance and guided-weapon employment from a runway-based platform.

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USAPro

Black Recon

Teledyne FLIR's Black Recon is a vehicle-launched autonomous micro-drone system that lets a crew launch, operate, recover and recharge up to three UAVs without leaving the vehicle, delivering near-continuous GNSS-denied reconnaissance. Market-launched at Eurosatory 2026.

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EuropePro

AVILUS Wespe

AVILUS's Wespe is a German uncrewed coaxial-rotor helicopter built to carry about 200 kg of cargo or casualties some 300 km with no crew aboard; the first-generation prototype flew on 1 June 2026, pitched at the Bundeswehr's contested-resupply and medevac needs.

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EuropePro

Airbus U145

The Airbus U145 is an uncrewed, AI-flown conversion of the best-selling H145 light-twin helicopter, unveiled at ILA Berlin 2026 and pitched for high-volume cargo resupply in contested zones where putting aircrew at risk is no longer acceptable.

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EuropePro

Airbus Ravenstorm

Airbus's U760 Ravenstorm is an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft concept — a stealthy loyal wingman for air-to-air combat, strike and jamming unveiled at ILA Berlin 2026 and aimed at Germany's post-FCAS combat-drone race. So far it is a model, not an aircraft.

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UkrainePro

Yartura Dancer

The Yartura Dancer 4.5.0 is a Ukrainian fixed-wing interceptor drone that reaches 450 km/h and uses an AI homing system to re-attack a target drone until it is destroyed — built against the fast jet-powered variants of Russia's Shahed/Geran family.

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EuropePro

Victor U250

The Victor U250 is a German hybrid-electric heavy-lift cargo drone from ERC System, an IABG subsidiary, built to carry up to 250 kg over 300 km for battlefield resupply — targeting the gap between small cargo drones and crewed helicopters, with Rheinmetall backing production.

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UkrainePro

Vepr

Vepr is a Ukrainian tracked ground robot for frontline logistics and casualty evacuation — 350 kg of cargo or two wounded, ~40 km per charge, plus remote demining, recovery and one-way strike roles. Codified by Ukraine's MoD in June 2026 after two years on the front.

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USAPro

Mach Industries Atlas

Mach Industries' Atlas is a hybrid-electric, runway-independent strike drone being developed under DIU's RIMES program to carry 1,000-pound munitions 1,400 nautical miles from destroyer decks and austere sites — and come back to rearm.

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USAPro

AeroVironment P550

The AeroVironment P550 is a runway-independent, battery-electric eVTOL reconnaissance drone built for the US Army's Long-Range Reconnaissance program, giving battalion commanders up to five hours of modular ISR, relay, electronic-warfare and strike capability.