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DISPATCH 02/26 · 9 Jun 2026
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CH-901

China's tube-launched, electric loitering munition — a man-portable, recoverable-or-lethal reconnaissance-strike system that can be launched singly or in swarms from a 48-tube vehicle, and is being aggressively export-marketed alongside the larger Rainbow and Wing Loong families.

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Russia

Lancet

Russia's dominant loitering munition — an electric X-wing anti-materiel drone with shaped-charge, fragmentation, and thermobaric warheads, used at mass scale against artillery, armor, and air-defense assets in Ukraine.

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USA

Switchblade

The Switchblade family of tube-launched, man-portable loitering munitions — the 300 for anti-personnel and the 600 for anti-armor — delivers precision strike with real-time operator oversight, and has been battle-proven in Ukraine.

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Iran

Shahed-136

Iran-origin, Russia-built long-range one-way attack drone — the saturation-strike icon of the Ukraine war, fired in mass nightly salvos to exhaust air defenses and strike infrastructure at a cost-exchange ratio that has rewritten the economics of strategic bombardment.