2S19 Msta-S
Artillery- Role
- The standard Russian self-propelled 152 mm howitzer of the war — the workhorse of the artillery arm the invasion was built around.
- Origin
- Soviet Union, Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
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Reviewed profiles of major publicly documented systems — the ones unit profiles and key events link to, each with a permanent page. The full structured catalogue, including the stub index, lives at Equipment. Each system's confidence grade, status date and sources are shown on its own record.
2S22 Bohdana
Artillery- Role
- Ukraine's domestically produced NATO-calibre howitzer — the symbol of its wartime artillery industry.
- Origin
- Ukraine
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
9K720 Iskander-M / K
Missile / precision strike- Role
- The workhorse short-range ballistic missile of the strike campaign — and the hardest routine target Ukraine's air defences face.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
Bayraktar TB2
Strike UAV / loitering munition- Role
- The early-war icon whose strike role faded as Russian air defence coalesced — a case study in how fast adaptation cycles run in this war.
- Origin
- Türkiye
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali · Nagorno-Karabakh · Libya · Syria
FieldedFull record →
BMP-2 family
Infantry fighting vehicle- Role
- The ubiquitous mechanised-infantry workhorse on both sides of the front.
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Middle East · Africa · Caucasus
FieldedFull record →
BRDM-2
Reconnaissance vehicle- Role
- A Soviet amphibious scout car of 1960s design — long out of production, still in service across multiple wars from refurbished stock.
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali
FieldedFull record →
BTR-80
Armoured personnel carrier- Role
- The standard Soviet-pattern eight-wheeled armoured personnel carrier — mobile, lightly protected, and still the default troop carrier of the armies that inherited or bought it.
- Origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali
FieldedFull record →
CAESAR
Artillery- Role
- The French wheeled 155 mm howitzer — shoot-and-scoot survivability that kept it in the counter-battery fight where towed guns could not live.
- Origin
- France
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Middle East
FieldedFull record →
D-30 122mm howitzer
Artillery- Role
- The ubiquitous Soviet 122mm towed howitzer — simple, cheap and exported everywhere; the baseline of tube artillery in most armies that field it.
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali
FieldedFull record →
F-16AM/BM
Combat aircraft- Role
- Ukraine's first Western fighter — an air-defence workhorse and integration milestone rather than the silver bullet once advertised.
- Origin
- United States
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Middle East · global service
FieldedFull record →
FPV strike drones (class)
Strike UAV / loitering munition- Role
- The defining weapon of the war's attritional phase — a category, not a model.
- Origin
- Ukraine, Russia, commercial (largely Chinese) supply chains
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Middle East
FieldedFull record →
Interceptor drones (counter-Shahed)
Electronic warfare / counter-UAS- Role
- Cheap propeller-driven drones built to destroy other drones — the layer that let Ukraine answer mass with mass instead of spending scarce missiles on cheap targets.
- Origin
- Ukraine
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
IRIS-T SLM / SLS
Air defence- Role
- The German-supplied medium-range layer — the system Ukraine relies on against cruise missiles, sitting between cheap counter-drone defences and the scarce anti-ballistic tier.
- Origin
- Germany
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
Ka-52 Alligator
Helicopter- Role
- Russia's premier attack helicopter — from the Hostomel air assault to the standoff tank-killing screen that blunted the 2023 counteroffensive.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Syria
FieldedFull record →
Leopard 2 family
Main battle tank- Role
- The principal Western-donated main battle tank family in Ukrainian service.
- Origin
- Germany
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
M142 HIMARS
Rocket artillery- Role
- Precision deep-strike rocket artillery that reshaped Russian logistics in 2022.
- Origin
- United States
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Middle East
FieldedFull record →
M1A1 SA Abrams
Main battle tank- Role
- The American main battle tank in Ukrainian service — a small fleet whose political weight exceeds its battlefield mass.
- Origin
- United States
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Iraq · Middle East
FieldedFull record →
M2A2 ODS-SA Bradley
Infantry fighting vehicle- Role
- The most consequential Western infantry fighting vehicle of the war — protection and firepower that crews publicly credit with keeping them alive.
- Origin
- United States
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Iraq · Middle East
FieldedFull record →
Magura V5
Uncrewed maritime system- Role
- The naval strike drone credited with driving the Black Sea Fleet from the northwestern Black Sea.
- Origin
- Ukraine
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
Mi-24/Mi-35 Hind
Helicopter- Role
- The Soviet gunship that outlived its era — armour, heavy firepower and a troop bay, flown in escort and fire-support roles decades after its designers expected.
- Origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali
FieldedFull record →
Mi-8/Mi-17 Hip
Helicopter- Role
- The most widely used military helicopter ever built — assault transport, resupply and medevac, and the only way into places roads cannot safely reach.
- Origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali
FieldedFull record →
MIM-104 Patriot
Air defence- Role
- The upper tier of Ukraine's air defence — the system publicly credited with its routine ballistic-missile intercepts over the cities.
- Origin
- United States
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Middle East
FieldedFull record →
NASAMS
Air defence- Role
- The other half of Ukraine's medium-range layer — a ground-launched system firing air-to-air missiles, used against cruise missiles and drones rather than against ballistic threats.
- Origin
- Norway, United States
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
Orlan-10 / Orlan-30
Reconnaissance UAV- Role
- The eyes of Russian artillery — the war's most ubiquitous reconnaissance drone, produced and expended in the thousands.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Syria
FieldedFull record →
R-360 Neptune
Missile / precision strike- Role
- The domestically built anti-ship missile that sank the Moskva — since evolved into a land-attack weapon reaching deep into Russian rear areas.
- Origin
- Ukraine
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
S-400 Triumf
Air defence- Role
- Russia's premier strategic air-defence system — documented defending Crimea and the border regions throughout the war, and a priority target for Ukrainian deep strikes.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Syria · global export
FieldedFull record →
Shahed-136 / Geran-2 family
Strike UAV / loitering munition- Role
- The mass one-way attack drone of the strategic strike campaign.
- Origin
- Iran, Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Middle East
FieldedFull record →
Su-25
Combat aircraft- Role
- The Soviet “flying tank” — a rugged, heavily armoured close-support jet built to operate low, from rough fields, and absorb hits.
- Origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Mali
FieldedFull record →
Su-34
Combat aircraft- Role
- The workhorse of the Russian glide-bomb campaign.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Syria
FieldedFull record →
T-64 family
Main battle tank- Role
- The backbone of Ukraine's tank fleet — designed, built and overhauled in Kharkiv.
- Origin
- Soviet Union (Kharkiv design bureau, Ukraine)
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
T-72 family
Main battle tank- Role
- Core mechanised firepower fielded by both sides — one family record, two operators.
- Origin
- Soviet Union, Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Syria · Nagorno-Karabakh · Iraq
FieldedFull record →
T-90M Proryv
Main battle tank- Role
- Russia's most modern tank in series production — priority equipment for its best formations, and a priority trophy when captured.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Syria (T-90A)
FieldedFull record →
UMPK glide-bomb kits (FAB family)
Missile / precision strike- Role
- The cheap wing-and-satnav kit that turned Russia's Soviet dumb-bomb stockpile into a standoff siege weapon — arguably its most consequential adaptation of the war.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →
ZALA Lancet family
Strike UAV / loitering munition- Role
- Russia's counter-battery loitering munition of choice — the standing threat to any gun, radar or air-defence vehicle within tens of kilometres of the front.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
FieldedFull record →