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MQ-4C Triton

The MQ-4C Triton is Northrop Grumman's unarmed, high-altitude maritime surveillance aircraft, operated by the U.S. Navy and Australia alongside crewed P-8A Poseidon aircraft.

USA · Ukraine · missilesPro

ADM-160 MALD

The ADM-160 MALD is an expendable air-launched decoy that imitates aircraft radar signatures. The MALD-J variant adds radar jamming; Ukraine uses the baseline decoy alongside strike weapons.

USA · missiles · precision-guided-bombPro

GBU-53/B StormBreaker (SDB II)

The GBU-53/B StormBreaker is a US precision glide bomb combining radar, infrared and laser guidance with in-flight updates to attack moving targets in poor weather.

USA · air defense · counter-UASPro

EchoGuard

EchoGuard is Echodyne's compact, electronically steered radar for short-range drone and ground-target tracking, used as a sensing and cueing component in surveillance and counter-drone systems.

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.