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UkrainePro

RZ-100 (Morok)

The RZ-100, widely identified as Morok, is a Ukrainian piston-engined one-way attack drone credited with carrying a 30 kg warhead to targets up to 800 km away.

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MICH 2000

A Ukrainian long-range one-way attack drone derived from the Chinese ZTK-150 civil airframe, operated exclusively by the SBU's Alpha unit and credited with strikes deep inside Russia.

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Palestine-2

The Palestine-2 is an Iranian-derived, two-stage solid-propellant ballistic missile fielded by Yemen's Houthi movement for long-range strikes against Israel.

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Samad-3

The Samad-3 is a long-range Houthi one-way attack drone with an external fuel tank, an estimated reach beyond 1,800 km and an Iranian-linked commercial-component supply chain.

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YJ-83 / C-802

China's widely exported family of subsonic, turbojet-powered anti-ship cruise missiles, fielded from ships, aircraft and coastal launchers and reproduced in Iran as the Noor, Qader and Ghadir.

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DF-16

China's DF-16 is a road-mobile, two-stage ballistic missile designed for conventional precision strikes against Taiwan and other targets across the western Pacific's first island chain.

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Kh-38

The Kh-38 is a Russian modular, supersonic air-to-surface missile family combining a common airframe with laser, imaging-infrared, radar or satellite-guided configurations.

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BGM-71 TOW

The BGM-71 TOW is a long-serving American heavy anti-tank guided missile family, launched from tripods, vehicles and helicopters and fielded in wire-guided and radio-frequency variants.

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Exocet

The Exocet is a French family of high-subsonic, sea-skimming anti-ship missiles fielded in ship-, air-, submarine- and coast-launched forms, with the latest MM40 Block 3c adding land-attack capability and a new electronic-warfare-resilient seeker.

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Paveway

Paveway is a US-origin family of guidance kits that converts general-purpose and penetrator bombs into laser-guided or dual-mode laser/GPS precision weapons.

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AGM-65 Maverick

The AGM-65 Maverick is a modular US air-to-surface missile family combining television, imaging-infrared or laser guidance with anti-armour and penetrating warheads.

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UkrainePro

Vilkha

Ukraine's Vilkha is a family of 300 mm precision-guided rockets derived from the BM-30 Smerch, combining existing launchers with new guidance, propulsion and warheads for strikes beyond 100 km.

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FP-7

The FP-7 is a Ukrainian ground-launched tactical ballistic missile under military evaluation, designed to carry up to 150 kg over a stated 200 km range.

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PL-17

China's PL-17 is a very-long-range air-to-air missile designed to threaten tankers, airborne early-warning aircraft and other high-value support assets at distances approaching 400 km.

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DF-5C

The DF-5C is China's newest heavy, liquid-fuelled, silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile, presented as a globally ranged strategic weapon and assessed by the Pentagon to carry a multi-megaton warhead.

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YJ-12

China's YJ-12 is a ramjet-powered supersonic anti-ship cruise missile fielded from H-6 bombers, surface ships and coastal launchers, with the CM-302 offered for export.

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RussiaPro

Kh-55 / Kh-555

The Kh-55 is a Soviet-designed, long-range air-launched cruise missile built for nuclear strike; its Kh-555 conversion carries a conventional warhead, while surviving Kh-55SMs have served as decoys over Ukraine.

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ZALA KUB-BLA

The ZALA KUB-BLA is a Russian catapult-launched loitering munition designed to attack fixed coordinates, with an expanding family of longer-range and electro-optically guided derivatives.

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R-27 (AA-10 Alamo)

The R-27 is a Soviet-designed medium-range air-to-air missile family combining semi-active radar, infrared and passive-radar variants for MiG-29 and Su-27-family fighters.

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Toufan

Toufan is the Houthi designation for an Iranian Ghadr-derived, liquid-propellant medium-range ballistic missile with sufficient claimed range to reach Israel from Yemen.

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LUCAS

LUCAS is a US long-range one-way attack drone derived from the Iranian Shahed-136 and designed to deliver affordable mass through coordinated, expendable strike formations.

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YJ-18

China's YJ-18 is a ship- and submarine-launched cruise-missile family combining subsonic cruise with a supersonic terminal sprint, with reported anti-ship and land-attack variants.

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RGM-84 Harpoon

The RGM-84 Harpoon is a US surface-launched, sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missile used from warships and coastal batteries, including Ukraine's Black Sea defenses.

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RussiaPro

Kh-35 (AS-20 Kayak)

The Kh-35 is a Russian subsonic, sea-skimming anti-ship cruise missile family deployed from aircraft, ships and coastal launchers, and increasingly used against land targets in Ukraine.

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RAM-2X

The RAM-2X is a Ukrainian X-wing loitering munition designed to attack air-defense systems, radars and other high-value targets at ranges of up to 180 km.

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Bars

Bars is a Ukrainian jet-powered missile-drone built for long-range strikes, with a claimed reach of up to 1,000 km, speed above 700 km/h and terminal operator guidance.

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FP-1

The FP-1 is a Ukrainian long-range one-way attack drone built by Fire Point for high-volume strikes against static targets deep inside Russian territory.

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Hwasong-19

North Korea's largest flight-tested road-mobile ICBM — a three-stage, solid-propellant missile intended to supplement the Hwasong-18 and potentially carry multiple reentry vehicles.

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Zolfaghar

Iran's road-mobile, solid-fuel Zolfaghar ballistic missile extends the Fateh-110 family to a claimed 700 km and has been used in cross-border strikes since 2017.

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RussiaPro

RSM-56 Bulava

Russia's solid-propellant submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile, carried exclusively by Borei-class ballistic-missile submarines and central to the modernization of the country's sea-based nuclear deterrent.

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RS-24 Yars

Russia's principal solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile, deployed on road-mobile launchers and in silos with multiple independently targetable nuclear warheads.

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LGM-30G Minuteman III

The LGM-30G Minuteman III is the United States' three-stage, solid-propellant, silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile and the sole land-based component of the US nuclear triad.

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Trident II D5

The UGM-133A Trident II D5 is the submarine-launched ballistic missile at the core of the United States and United Kingdom sea-based nuclear deterrents.

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AGM-179 JAGM

The AGM-179 Joint Air-to-Ground Missile is Lockheed Martin's dual-mode successor to Hellfire, combining laser and millimetre-wave guidance for precision strikes in obscured and adverse-weather conditions.

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OTR-21 Tochka-U

The OTR-21 Tochka-U is a Soviet road-mobile short-range ballistic missile with a 120 km range, inertial guidance and conventional, cluster or nuclear warhead options.

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JDAM / JDAM-ER

Boeing's modular GPS/INS guidance family for converting conventional bombs into all-weather precision weapons, including the winged JDAM-ER and turbojet-powered JDAM-LR.

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AGM-88 HARM

The AGM-88 HARM is a U.S. supersonic anti-radiation missile designed to suppress or destroy radar-guided air defenses, with later AARGM variants adding multi-mode guidance against emitters that shut down.

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R-77 (AA-12 Adder)

Russia's principal active-radar-homing beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile family, developed as a counterpart to the AIM-120 AMRAAM and carried by Flanker and Felon fighters.

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R-73 (AA-11 Archer)

The R-73, known to NATO as the AA-11 Archer, is a Soviet-designed short-range infrared air-to-air missile whose agility and helmet-sight cueing reshaped close-air-combat missile development.

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AIM-9X Sidewinder

The AIM-9X Sidewinder is a current-generation infrared-guided short-range missile used by combat aircraft and, through NASAMS, as a surface-launched interceptor against airborne threats.

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AIM-424 Malice

The AIM-424 Malice is a Raytheon-built US Navy very-long-range air-to-air missile intended to engage aircraft beyond 463 km while fitting inside the F-35C's weapons bay.

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AIM-260 JATM

The AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile is a classified US long-range air-to-air weapon designed to replace the AIM-120 AMRAAM while retaining a form factor compatible with internal fighter weapon bays.

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YJ-19

China's YJ-19 is a submarine-launched, air-breathing hypersonic anti-ship missile sized for standard 533 mm torpedo tubes and accepted for service aboard Type 039B Yuan-class submarines.

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RussiaPro

UMPK-PD

Russia's UMPK-PD is a jet-powered evolution of the UMPK glide-bomb kit, reportedly extending air-launched strike range to 150–200 km while keeping launch aircraft farther from Ukrainian air defenses.

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UMPB D-30SN

Russia's UMPB D-30SN is a purpose-built, 250 kg-class guided glide bomb designed to strike targets at up to 100 km when released from high altitude.

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EuropePro

Tiberius Invictus

Tiberius Invictus is an experimental ramjet-powered precision-strike family intended to deliver missile-like range from existing artillery and other launch domains, with the Invictus-200 claimed to reach 200 km at up to Mach 3.

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RussiaPro

RS-28 Sarmat

Russia's RS-28 Sarmat is a heavy, silo-launched intercontinental ballistic missile intended to replace the R-36M2 and carry MIRVs or Avangard glide vehicles, but its operational status remains unverified after repeated test failures and delays.

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R-37M

Russia's R-37M is a very-long-range air-to-air missile designed to threaten fighters, support aircraft and other airborne targets at distances beyond conventional air-combat weapons.

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Neros Archer

Neros Archer is a US-made attritable FPV attack drone developed with Ukrainian and American military partners, selected by the US Army under its Purpose-Built Attritable Systems programme.

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AGM-158C LRASM

The AGM-158C LRASM is a low-observable, air-launched anti-ship cruise missile designed to identify and attack warships autonomously in contested electronic environments.

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RussiaPro

Krasnopol

Krasnopol is a Soviet-origin family of 152 mm and 155 mm laser-guided artillery projectiles designed to strike point targets designated by ground observers or reconnaissance drones.

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Izdeliye 305 (LMUR)

Izdeliye 305, or LMUR, is a Russian helicopter-launched standoff missile with an imaging seeker and two-way datalink, used operationally from Mi-28NM and Ka-52M attack helicopters in Ukraine.

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GMLRS

GMLRS is the 227 mm precision-guided rocket fired by HIMARS and M270 launchers, combining GPS-aided inertial guidance with ranges from 70 km to more than 150 km.

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M982 Excalibur

The M982 Excalibur is a GPS- and inertially guided 155 mm artillery projectile that gives compatible howitzers precision-strike capability at extended range, but its performance in Ukraine has exposed the vulnerability of satellite-guided ammunition to electronic warfare.

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ChinaPro

CJ-1000

The CJ-1000 is a Chinese road-mobile, scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile presented for long-range land attack and anti-ship missions, although its deployment status and performance remain unverified.

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EuropePro

Brimstone

Brimstone is a British precision attack missile with radar and laser guidance, designed for moving targets and adapted by Ukraine for ground launch against Russian armour.

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RussiaPro

Avangard

Avangard is Russia's nuclear-capable strategic hypersonic glide vehicle, carried above the atmosphere by a heavy ICBM before manoeuvring toward its target at externally estimated speeds of up to Mach 27.

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EuropePro

Helsing HF-1

Helsing's first combat drone — a plywood-framed, AI-guided loitering munition co-produced in Ukraine. It launched badly enough that Kyiv stopped ordering, then improved enough to hit better than half its targets around Pokrovsk.

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RussiaPro

Kh-31

A ramjet missile that homes on the radar trying to detect it. The Kh-31P is why Ukrainian Patriot crews cannot leave their radars radiating, and why the air-defence problem in Ukraine is as much about emissions discipline as about interceptor stocks.

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Kh-22

A 1960s anti-ship missile carrying nearly a tonne of explosive at Mach 4.6, fired at cities it was never designed to hit. Its error is measured in hundreds of metres, which is why its record in Ukraine is a record of civilian casualties.

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Kh-59

The precision half of Russia's air-launched arsenal. Where the Kh-22 lands within half a kilometre of where it was aimed, the Kh-59MK2 is credited with metres — and it is the missile Ukrainian air defence reports intercepting one at a time.

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KN-30

North Korea's heavyweight Hwasong-11 — a solid-fuel ballistic missile more than ten metres long, claimed to carry a 2.5-tonne warhead roughly five times an Iskander's, transferred to Russia in 2026 and deployed within range of Ukraine.

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Parodiya

A plywood aircraft with no warhead and a metal-coated sphere in the fuselage. The Luneburg lens makes it read on radar as a Shahed, so Ukrainian air defence must treat every one as lethal — which is the entire weapon.

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IranPro

Shahed-131

The small Shahed. About two-thirds the weight of a Shahed-136 with roughly a third of the warhead and a rotary engine, it entered Russian service as the Geran-1 in 2022 and is still a separately planned production line four years later.

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USAPro

ERAM (AGM-188 Rusty Dagger)

The US Air Force went to two firms almost nobody had heard of, asked for a cruise missile cheap enough to run out of without regret, and got flight tests in four months. ERAM is the West's answer to the cost-exchange crisis Shahed created.

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RussiaPro

Garpiya-A1

Russia's second Shahed line — built not at Alabuga but by Almaz-Antey subsidiary Kupol in Izhevsk, with Chinese engineering help. Heavier warhead than a Geran-2, now sold abroad by Rosoboronexport and fielded in Mali.

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Geran-5

The largest and fastest member of Russia's Geran family — a 6.5-metre, cruise-missile-shaped "missile-drone" flying at up to 600 km/h with a 90 kg warhead, air-launchable from a Su-25 and reportedly able to carry an air-to-air missile of its own.

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IranPro

Fateh-110

The Fateh-110 is an Iranian road-mobile, solid-propellant short-range ballistic missile developed for conventional theater strikes at ranges of approximately 200 to 300 km.

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EuropePro

Thundart

Thundart is the MBDA-Safran guided rocket-artillery munition and 8×8 launcher selected in June 2026 as France's sovereign FLP-T choice to replace the aging LRU — a 150 km, ITAR-free deep-strike capability France hopes to field around 2030.

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USAPro

Perennial Hornet

The Perennial Hornet is a ~$5,000 AI-guided one-way strike drone from Eric Schmidt's Perennial Autonomy — an optically navigated fixed-wing aircraft Ukrainian units use to burn Russian supply trucks 50-150 km behind the front, the workhorse of Kyiv's "logistics lockdown" campaign.

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UkrainePro

DART

DART is a Ukrainian balloon-launched strike missile: dropped from a stratospheric aerostat at 12-18 km, it shuts off its own navigation at ~6 km and finishes on a fixed solid-fuel course, leaving Russian jamming nothing to attack. Its graphite warhead is built to short out power grids.

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Anduril Barracuda

Anduril's Barracuda is a family of low-cost, turbojet-powered autonomous cruise missiles — Barracuda-100, -250 and -500 — built for mass production, with a Pentagon order for at least 3,000 rounds and co-production lines planned in Poland and Taiwan.

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UkrainePro

Bober (Beaver)

Ukraine's UJ-26 Bober, or Beaver, is a long-range one-way attack drone associated with HUR strikes against Moscow, Crimea and Russian military infrastructure.

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USAPro

AGM-114 Hellfire

The AGM-114 Hellfire is the 40-year workhorse of US precision strike — the laser-guided missile that armed the Apache against Soviet tanks, defined the armed-drone era on the Reaper, killed Soleimani, and in its bladed R9X "Ninja" form kills single targets with steel blades instead of a warhead.

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IranPro

Shahed-101

The Shahed-101 is Iran's small one-way-attack drone — the quiet, catapult-launched progenitor of the Shahed-107, used by Hezbollah and Iraqi militias since 2021, confirmed in Ukraine from late 2025 (all-Iranian parts), and refielded in an electric, near-silent variant for Iran's 2026 Gulf strikes.

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RussiaPro

Chernika-2

The Chernika-2 ("Blueberry") is Russia's foam flying-wing strike drone — 3.5 kg warhead, 100 km reach, ~$10k all-in, with Russian-claimed machine-vision navigation that flies under jamming. Over 11,000 claimed built; hitting Kharkiv since June 2025.

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IranPro

Shahed-107

The Shahed-107 is Iran's mid-range strike drone reportedly built for Russia's war — announced as a 1,500 km HIMARS hunter, revealed by Ukrainian teardown as a ~300 km, 15 kg-warhead X-tail drone hitting the near rear. The gap between those two descriptions is the story.

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Bora

The Roketsan Bora is Turkey's combat-proven tactical ballistic missile — fired against PKK targets in 2019, the first Turkish BM used in anger, and exported to Indonesia as the Khan: the first Turkish ballistic-missile export, deliberately sized under the MTCR threshold.

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Emad

The Emad is Iran's first precision-guided ballistic missile — a Ghadr airframe with a maneuvering reentry vehicle, ~1,700 km range. It has flown in every True Promise salvo against Israel since April 2024, and the 2026 war gutted the launcher force and factories that field it.

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Paveh

The Paveh is Iran's 1,650 km-claimed cruise missile — the IRGC's Project 351, identical to the Houthis' Quds that hit Saudi Aramco in 2019. Used against Israel in April 2024 (0 of ~30 got through), exported to three proxy arsenals, and absent from the missile-dominated 2025–26 wars.

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RussiaPro

S8000 Banderol

The S8000 Banderol is Russia's AliExpress cruise missile — a Kronshtadt-built weapon around a Chinese hobby turbojet, launched from Orion drones: 500 km range, 114 kg warhead, agility Ukrainian intelligence says beats the Kalibr. First used on Kyiv in June 2026.

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V2U

The V2U is Russia's autonomous AI strike drone — Nvidia Jetson brain, terrain-matching navigation, and late-2025 builds recovered with no radio link at all: nothing to jam. CSIS assesses Russia has likely fielded a fully autonomous weapon in combat. Maker unknown.

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Molniya

The Molniya is Russia's plywood-and-tape strike drone — a $300–1,600 fixed-wing weapon launched by the thousands each month against Ukrainian cities and supply roads, now spawning fiber-optic, FPV-carrier, recon and 13 kg heavy variants. Cheap mass as doctrine.

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LGM-35A Sentinel

The LGM-35A Sentinel is the US ICBM replacing the 1970-vintage Minuteman III — and America's most troubled strategic program: an 81% cost breach to at least $141B, silo reuse abandoned for all-new silos, first flight slipped to 2028 and IOC to the early 2030s.

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ChinaPro

JL-3

The JL-3 is China's third-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile — a ~10,000 km-class, likely MIRV-capable weapon now fielded on Jin-class submarines, which the Pentagon says ranges most of the continental US. First shown publicly at the September 2025 parade.

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DF-27

The DF-27 is China's ICBM-range hypersonic glide missile — per the Pentagon a fielded conventional ICBM with the world's longest-range anti-ship variant, reaching Hawaii, Alaska and much of the Pacific. Never shown or acknowledged by Beijing; nearly all data traces to one leaked US document.

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Hwasong-18

The Hwasong-18 is North Korea's first solid-fuel ICBM — cold-launched, road-mobile, three-for-three in 2023 tests, with an implied 15,000 km reach covering the entire US. It compresses pre-launch warning to minutes and sparked an unresolved fight over Russian design help.

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Tayfun

The Roketsan Tayfun is Turkey's longest-range ballistic missile — revealed by a 561 km test in 2022, in mass production since 2023, with the enlarged Block-4 marketed as Turkey's "first hypersonic missile." Range claims span 280 to 1,500 km; only the demonstration is certain.

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Hyunmoo

South Korea's strike arsenal — the Hyunmoo family runs from Tomahawk-like cruise missiles to the Hyunmoo-5 "monster missile," a conventional ballistic weapon with an 8-tonne bunker-buster warhead built to smash North Korea's deepest command bunkers. The non-nuclear backbone of Seoul's deterrence.

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Agni-V

India's long-range deterrent — the Agni-V is a road-mobile, nuclear-capable ballistic missile that puts all of China within reach. In 2024 India test-fired a version carrying multiple independently-targeted warheads (MIRV), joining a small club of powers with that technology.

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BrahMos

The world's fastest cruise missile in service — India and Russia's BrahMos is a Mach-3 ramjet weapon that hits ships and land targets from sea, land, air and submarine. India used it in combat against Pakistan in 2025 and now exports it to the Philippines.

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Hsiung Feng III

Taiwan's "carrier killer" — the ramjet-powered Hsiung Feng III streaks toward enemy ships at around Mach 3, too fast for many defences to react. Fired from warships, coastal batteries and fighter jets, it is a core asymmetric weapon meant to make any Chinese invasion fleet pay a heavy price.

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Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile

Japan's counterstrike missile — the upgraded Type 12 stretches a once-coastal anti-ship weapon to ~1,000 km, adds stealth shaping, terrain-following and evasive maneuvers, and can hit ships or land targets from ground launchers, ships and aircraft. The spearhead of Tokyo's new strike posture.

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EuropePro

Naval Strike Missile (NSM)

Norway's stealth ship-killer — a low-flying, fully passive cruise missile with an imaging-infrared seeker that emits nothing for defenders to detect, weaves around islands and terrain, and is now the West's anti-ship weapon of choice from US Navy ships to Marine truck launchers.

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EuropePro

Meteor

Europe's air-superiority edge — the only operational ramjet air-to-air missile, whose throttleable engine keeps it accelerating to the target for a "no-escape zone" far larger than the AMRAAM's. Built by six European nations for the Typhoon, Rafale and Gripen — and now reaching Ukraine.

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UkrainePro

GLSDB

A clever bolt-together weapon — a small glide bomb strapped to a surplus rocket motor to give HIMARS a 150 km punch that can curve around defenses and even strike behind the launcher. On paper a bargain deep-strike round; in Ukraine, blunted badly by Russian jamming.

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RussiaPro

9M729

The cruise missile that killed the INF Treaty — a ground-launched, nuclear-capable weapon the US says flies far past the 500 km the treaty banned, and Russia insists stays just under it. The arms-control dispute became its legacy; its reported 2025 combat use in Ukraine is its grim sequel.

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P-800 Oniks

Russia's Mach-2.5 ramjet cruise missile and the Bastion-P coastal batteries that fire it — designed to kill ships, but used relentlessly against Ukrainian land targets because its speed makes it brutally hard to intercept. The parent design of India's BrahMos.

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Arash-2

The "bigger brother" of the Shahed-136 — Iran's large, long-range kamikaze drone, unveiled with the boast that it was built to hit Tel Aviv and Haifa. Claimed to fly ~2,000 km with an anti-radar seeker, it's real and fielded — and US forces have already blown one up.