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USA · drones · orca-xluuvPro

Boeing Orca XLUUV

Boeing Orca is the US Navy's diesel-electric extra-large uncrewed undersea vehicle, developed for mine warfare and modular undersea missions.

USA · air defense · counter-UASPro

LOCUST Laser Weapon System

LOCUST is AeroVironment's high-energy laser counter-drone weapon family, developed by BlueHalo and deployed by the US Army in palletized and vehicle-mounted configurations.

USA · air defense · missile-defensePro

Space-Based Interceptor (Golden Dome)

The Space-Based Interceptor program develops orbital kinetic interceptors for Golden Dome, with a planned constellation intended to engage missiles during boost, midcourse and glide phases.

USA · drones · UGVPro

FireAnt (Swarmbotics AI)

FireAnt is Swarmbotics AI's small autonomous ground vehicle for networked reconnaissance, electronic warfare and mission payloads, undergoing US Army experimentation with the 1st Cavalry Division.

USA · Asia-Pacific · air defensePro

Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI)

The Glide Phase Interceptor is a US-Japan missile-development program intended to give Aegis ships and Aegis Ashore a hit-to-kill defense against hypersonic glide vehicles during atmospheric glide.

USA · Funding · Blackstone

Blackstone Builds Falcata Around Interceptor Guidance 'Brains'

Blackstone has combined TSC and ASEI into Falcata, a company built to expand output of the seekers, guidance electronics and navigation systems inside the cheaper interceptors needed against mass drone and missile threats.

USA · Air · electronic-warfarePro

EA-37B Compass Call

The EA-37B Compass Call is a US Air Force airborne electronic-attack aircraft that transfers the Compass Call mission from the EC-130H to a modified Gulfstream G550.

USA · drones · USVPro

Saildrone Surveyor

Surveyor is Saildrone's 20-meter uncrewed vessel for ocean mapping and surveillance; a 2026 exercise tested a JAGM launcher on one hull.

Ukraine · USA · EuropePro

Swarmer Platform

Swarmer Platform is Ukrainian-developed software for coordinating groups of drones through onboard autonomy and a ground control interface.

USA · Ukraine · Asia-PacificPro

ALTIUS-600M and 700M

ALTIUS-600M and 700M are Anduril one-way attack drones, with 600M delivered to Taiwan and both models contracted for Ukraine.

Ukraine · Russia · USAPro

The Repair Clock Behind Ukraine’s 45% Refinery Claim

Kyiv's strike ledger overstates the Russian refining capacity offline at one time. The harder metric is whether repeat strikes keep plants broken faster than Moscow can repair them, and that is the leverage Trump wants frozen.

USA · drones · male-uasPro

MQ-1C Gray Eagle

The MQ-1C Gray Eagle is the US Army's armed medium-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed aircraft, combining persistent surveillance, targeting, electronic warfare and Hellfire strike capabilities.

USA · Air · tiltrotorPro

V-22 Osprey

The V-22 Osprey is a twin-engine military tiltrotor combining helicopter-like vertical takeoff and landing with the speed and range of a turboprop transport.

USA · Europe · air defensePro

RIM-116 RAM

A compact US-German ship-defense missile that combines passive radio-frequency and infrared homing to intercept anti-ship missiles and other close-range threats.

USA · Ukraine · LandPro

M113

The M113 is a lightweight American tracked armored personnel carrier whose simple construction, extensive variant family and large surviving inventory have sustained its use from Vietnam to Ukraine.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

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.

USA · Europe · missilesPro

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.

USA · Europe · missilesPro

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.

USA · Air · close-air-supportPro

A-10 Thunderbolt II

The A-10 Thunderbolt II is an armored US close-air-support aircraft built around a 30 mm cannon, valued for persistence and low operating cost but vulnerable in contested airspace.

USA · drones · autonomous-underwater-vehiclePro

Anduril Dive-LD

Anduril Dive-LD is a US large autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long-endurance undersea surveillance, mine countermeasures, seabed mapping and modular payload delivery.

USA · missiles · one-way-attack-dronePro

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.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

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.

USA · missiles · icbmPro

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.

USA · Europe · missilesPro

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.

USA · missiles · air-to-surface-missilePro

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.

USA · Europe · AirPro

C-130J Super Hercules

The C-130J Super Hercules is the current-production version of the long-running Hercules family, combining four turboprop engines, short-field tactical airlift performance and a global support base.

USA · Europe · AirPro

P-8 Poseidon

The Boeing P-8 Poseidon is a 737-derived maritime patrol aircraft combining anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface strike and long-range intelligence collection for the US Navy and allied fleets.

USA · Air · airborne-electronic-attackPro

EA-18G Growler

The EA-18G Growler is a carrier-based airborne electronic-attack aircraft that detects, locates and jams hostile emitters while supporting strike aircraft with anti-radiation missiles and air-to-air weapons.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

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.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

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.

Iran · USA · Autonomy

Iran Recovered a $2.5 Million Dive-LD Intact

The vehicle Iran recovered near the Strait of Hormuz cost about as much as one Tomahawk. Its intact, mass-produced hull may be worth more to an adversary than the secrets it was not carrying.

USA · drones · uncrewed-surface-vesselPro

GARC

GARC is a compact American uncrewed surface vessel developed by BlackSea Technologies for modular reconnaissance, sensing and strike missions, and first used in a US Navy live-fire exercise at RIMPAC 2026.

USA · Space · electronic-warfarePro

Anduril Pulsar

Anduril Pulsar is a family of software-defined electromagnetic warfare systems intended to detect, classify and counter changing radio-frequency threats across fixed-site, vehicle, airborne and portable configurations.

USA · drones · autonomous-aircraftPro

Anduril Omen

Anduril Omen is a runway-independent Group 3 autonomous aircraft co-developed with EDGE Group, combining vertical launch and recovery with wing-borne cruise and a hybrid-electric powertrain.

USA · drones · autonomous-underwater-vehiclePro

Anduril Copperhead

Anduril Copperhead is a family of compact autonomous underwater vehicles and expendable armed variants designed to extend uncrewed sensing and strike networks into the undersea domain.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

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.

USA · missiles · air-to-air-missilePro

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.

USA · missiles · air-to-air-missilePro

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.

Europe · USA · missilesPro

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.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

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.

USA · missiles · anti-ship-missilePro

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.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

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.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

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.

USA · Europe · LandPro

XM30

The XM30 is the US Army's competition for a hybrid-electric, heavily armed successor to the M2 Bradley, contested by American Rheinmetall's Lynx XM30 and General Dynamics Land Systems' Wolf.

USA · software · artificial intelligencePro

TITAN

TITAN is the US Army's mobile, AI-enabled intelligence and targeting ground station, built to fuse data from distributed sensors and accelerate target nomination for long-range fires.

USA · Air · uncrewed-aircraftPro

Hermeus Quarterhorse

Hermeus Quarterhorse is an American series of uncrewed high-Mach demonstrator aircraft intended to validate propulsion, inlet, airframe and mission-autonomy technologies for the planned Darkhorse military aircraft.

USA · air defense · counter-UASPro

Raid Hunter

Raid Hunter is Northrop Grumman's developmental 50 mm gun-based air-defense system, combining precision-guided ammunition, a Bushmaster Chain Gun and networked fire control against massed drones and cruise missiles.

USA · Europe · air defensePro

Phalanx CIWS

Phalanx CIWS is a self-contained, radar-guided 20 mm naval gun system designed to provide warships with a final defensive layer against missiles, aircraft, drones and surface threats.

USA · air defense · directed-energyPro

Joint Laser Weapon System

A US programme to develop tactical, containerised 500 kW laser weapons for defeating cruise missiles and uncrewed aerial systems.

USA · Europe · air defensePro

RIM-162 ESSM

The RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile is a medium-range naval air-defence weapon whose four-round Mk 41 cell packing gives Western warships substantial self-defence magazine depth.

USA · air defense · counter-UASPro

Epirus Leonidas

Epirus Leonidas is a short-range, solid-state high-power microwave weapon designed to disable groups and swarms of uncrewed aircraft through one-to-many electronic attack.

China · USA · air defensePro

Chiang Kung

Taiwan's indigenous high-altitude anti-ballistic missile system, designed to provide the upper interception tier of the planned T-Dome air and missile defense network.