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DISPATCH 03/26 · 8 Sep 2026
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Bavar-373

Iran's flagship indigenous long-range SAM — an S-300/S-400-class system built to defend Tehran and its nuclear sites after sanctions delayed Russia's S-300. Iran claims it rivals the S-400; the 2025–26 air wars tested those claims hard.

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UkrainePro

Lyutyi

Ukraine’s primary strategic one-way attack drone — a 2,000 km-range pusher-prop system that has carried the war to Russia’s energy heartland, hitting refineries and military plants from the Caspian Sea to the Komi Republic.

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USAPro

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.

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RussiaPro

Kh-101

Russia's stealthy air-launched cruise missile — a long-range subsonic weapon carrying a 450 kg conventional warhead, the primary stand-off munition in Moscow's sustained aerial campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure.