Iran's reusable medium-altitude, long-endurance ISR and strike drone, designed for persistent surveillance and guided-weapon employment from a runway-based platform.
China's TB-001 Scorpion is a twin-boom, long-endurance MALE UCAV from Sichuan Tengden, used for PLA ISR and pressure flights around Taiwan and Japan's southwestern approaches.
Iran's would-be answer to the MQ-9 Reaper — a large reconnaissance-strike drone unveiled in 2023 with bold claims of 2,000 km range, 24-hour endurance and a 300 kg payload. The catch: almost none of it has been independently verified, and a piston engine caps the ambition.
China's biggest hunter-killer drone — a long-range MALE UAV with a claimed 10,000 km reach, 40-hour endurance and 16 weapons a sortie, and the first Wing Loong that can shoot back at other aircraft. It is the spearhead of China's cut-price, no-strings drone exports.
The Saker Scout is Ukraine's fielded AI-powered ISR and autonomous strike drone system, enabling machine-speed target detection and jamming-resistant operations.
Iran's twin-boom multirole ISTAR/strike UAV — a runway-operated, 12-hour endurance platform armed with precision glide bombs and Almas missiles, exported to Russia, Venezuela, Sudan and others, and seeing combat from Ukraine to the Caribbean.
France's delta-wing, fly-by-wire multirole fighter — 601 built, flown by nine air forces, and now intercepting Russian cruise missiles and pounding frontline targets over Ukraine.
Turkey's heavy-strike twin-turboprop UCAV — a 24-hour HALE platform that carries cruise missiles, air-launched ballistic weapons and an AESA radar, and the cornerstone of a 16-country export franchise built on aggressive co-production offers.
Russia’s heavy strike fighter-bomber — a side-by-side two-seat Su-27 derivative that became the principal launch platform for UMPK glide bombs over Ukraine and the most heavily contested Russian combat jet.
Russia's air-launched aeroballistic missile, marketed as a hypersonic "Dagger" and carried by modified MiG-31K interceptors — a weapon whose "uninterceptable" myth was punctured when a Patriot battery shot one down over Kyiv.
China's homegrown heavy multirole strike fighter — a twin-seat, twin-engine Flanker derivative packing an AESA radar and very-long-range air-to-air missiles, and the PLAAF's primary deep-strike and standoff platform.
The MQ-9 Reaper is the U.S. military's workhorse armed MALE UCAV—a long-endurance, remotely-piloted aircraft used for ISR and precision strike, fielded by the USAF and over a dozen allies, with a combat record spanning from the Black Sea to the Red Sea.
Turkey's game-changing MALE armed UCAV — a low-cost, piston-engined platform that reshaped conflicts in Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine, proving that a cheap, recoverable drone can dominate the battlefield when air defences are absent.