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.
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.
China's WZ-8 is a rocket-powered, air-launched reconnaissance UAV built for short, high-speed, high-altitude sensor runs from an H-6 bomber mothership rather than persistent loiter.
Russian tactical fixed-wing reconnaissance UAV family used for front-line ISR, target acquisition and Lancet strike cueing, with variants ranging from short-range electric airframes to long-endurance hybrid-electric models.
Forpost-R is Russia's indigenized, armed derivative of the Israeli IAI Searcher II UAV, used for reconnaissance, targeting and light precision strike in Ukraine and Syria.
Britain's troubled recon vehicle — a tracked, sensor-heavy armoured scout with a 40mm cased-telescoped cannon, meant to be the British Army's digital eyes. Eight years late and beset by noise-and-vibration injuries that hospitalized crews, it finally began entering service in 2025.
France's networked 6×6 cavalry vehicle — the Scorpion-program Jaguar that replaces three older recon and fire-support types with one, mounting a 40mm cased-telescoped cannon and Akeron anti-tank missiles. The digital, missile-armed successor to the AMX-10RC.
France's 6×6 "gun on wheels" — a fast, 105mm-armed reconnaissance vehicle the press dubbed a light tank when France sent it to Ukraine. Hard-hitting and quick on roads, but thinly armored: a mobile cavalry scout pressed, controversially, toward front-line assault work.
Russia's soldier-portable "find" half of the reconnaissance-fire loop — the KRUS Strelets links scouts, drone operators and artillery spotters to the guns. Capable on paper and improved in Syria, but Ukrainian accounts say its centralised, EW-fragile design lags Ukraine's apps.
The Saker Scout is Ukraine's fielded AI-powered ISR and autonomous strike drone system, enabling machine-speed target detection and jamming-resistant operations.
Low-cost multi-purpose Russian drone, a Shahed-136 lookalike used as a saturation decoy, one-way attack, reconnaissance and signal relay, forcing costly air-defense engagements at extreme cost asymmetry.
China's tandem-wing HALE ISR UAV — a high-altitude strategic reconnaissance platform frequently compared to the RQ-4 Global Hawk, in PLAAF and naval service since 2018.
High-altitude, unarmed strategic reconnaissance UAV that serves as the U.S. Air Force's persistent global ISR backbone, also operated by NATO’s AGS force and South Korea.