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
Fielded Full record →
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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
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
BM-21 Grad
Rocket artillery- Role
- The world's most widely used rocket launcher — forty 122 mm tubes on a truck, delivering area fire that is cheap, fast and inaccurate — in service on every side of the Ukrainian, Caucasus and Sahel wars.
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Nagorno-Karabakh · Mali
Fielded Full record →
BMD airborne IFV family
Infantry fighting vehicle- Role
- The air-droppable infantry fighting vehicle of Russia's airborne forces — light enough to parachute, too light to survive a war in which the VDV fights as line infantry, and documented lost in numbers that tell that story.
- Origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
Boxer
Armoured personnel carrier- Role
- The German–Dutch modular wheeled vehicle that carries Lithuania's mechanised infantry and the flank's newest wheeled howitzer — a single chassis whose interchangeable mission modules make it the platform the module's armour-recapitalisation object reads Lithuania's rearmament through.
- Origin
- Germany, Netherlands
- Also appears in
- NATO Eastern Flank · Ukraine–Russia (RCH 155 pledge)
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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 · Caucasus · NATO Eastern Flank
Fielded Full record →
CV90 family
Infantry fighting vehicle- Role
- The Swedish infantry fighting vehicle that the northern flank has converged on — six operators, two more contracted, a six-nation joint acquisition signed in 2025 — and the vehicle whose Ukrainian combat record is the published reason the orders grew.
- Origin
- Sweden
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · NATO Eastern Flank
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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 · NATO Eastern Flank · global service
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
Gepard
Air defence- Role
- A retired Cold War anti-aircraft tank that became one of Ukraine's most valued weapons — twin radar-directed 35 mm cannon that shoot down Shahed drones at a fraction of the cost of a missile.
- Origin
- Germany
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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 · NATO Eastern Flank
Fielded Full record →
JAS 39 Gripen
Combat aircraft- Role
- Sweden's fighter and the only European alternative to the F-35 on the northern flank — flown by three of the module's air forces and pledged to Ukraine — designed from the start to operate from dispersed road bases.
- Origin
- Sweden
- Also appears in
- NATO Eastern Flank · Ukraine–Russia (pledged)
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
Kalibr family
Missile / precision strike- Role
- Russia's sea-launched cruise missile — the naval leg of the strike campaign against Ukrainian cities and power grid, and the reason Ukraine's naval drones hunt the ships and submarines that carry it.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full record →
Kh-101 / Kh-555
Missile / precision strike- Role
- Russia's main air-launched cruise missile — the bomber-carried half of every large strike on Ukrainian cities and the power grid, modified four times during the war and still built with Western components found in its wreckage.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full 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 · NATO Eastern Flank
Fielded Full 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 · NATO Eastern Flank
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
MGM-140 ATACMS
Missile / precision strike- Role
- The American ballistic missile fired from HIMARS that extended Ukraine's reach to airfields, air-defence sites and depots across the occupied south and Crimea — and the weapon whose supply and targeting rules made it a proxy for the whole US policy debate.
- Origin
- United States
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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 · NATO Eastern Flank
Fielded Full record →
Mirage 2000-5
Combat aircraft- Role
- The third type in Taiwan's 1990s fighter acquisition — capable in the interception role, and the clearest illustration of the sustainment cost of operating a small fleet of a type few others fly.
- Origin
- France
- Also appears in
- Taiwan Strait · Ukraine–Russia · Middle East
Fielded Full 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 · NATO Eastern Flank
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
PzH 2000
Artillery- Role
- The German 155 mm self-propelled howitzer that Ukraine has fired since 2022 and that Germany, the Netherlands and Lithuania field on the flank — the gun whose wartime barrel wear and restarted production line show what sustained artillery war costs.
- Origin
- Germany
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · NATO Eastern Flank
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
S-300 family
Air defence- Role
- The Soviet long-range SAM that anchored Armenian air defence — and whose documented destruction by drones in 2020 became the era's defining image of legacy air defence meeting the loitering-munition age.
- Origin
- Soviet Union / Russia
- Also appears in
- Nagorno-Karabakh 2020 · Ukraine–Russia · Middle East
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
Sea Baby
Uncrewed maritime system- Role
- The Security Service's naval drone — the boat that hit the Kerch bridge in 2023, drove the Black Sea Fleet to Novorossiysk, struck shadow-fleet tankers in 2025 and, in December 2025, put an underwater variant into a submarine at its berth.
- Origin
- Ukraine
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
Storm Shadow / SCALP-EG
Missile / precision strike- Role
- The Anglo-French cruise missile that gave Ukraine its first deep, hardened-target strike capability — used against Black Sea Fleet headquarters, the Kerch approaches and, from late 2024, targets inside Russia — and whose supply is the tightest of any Ukrainian weapon.
- Origin
- United Kingdom, France
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
Su-34
Combat aircraft- Role
- The workhorse of the Russian glide-bomb campaign.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Syria
Fielded Full record →
Sukhoi Su-30SM
Combat aircraft- Role
- The Russian multirole fighter that is a mainstay of the Aerospace Forces' war against Ukraine — and, in a fleet of four, the only modern fighter Armenia has ever operated, bought in 2019 and by published accounts unused in the 2020 war for want of the missiles to arm it, now the subject of an Indian-assisted upgrade discussion that says more about Armenia's supplier realignment than about the aircraft.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Nagorno-Karabakh 2020 (unused)
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →
T-80 family
Main battle tank- Role
- The Soviet gas-turbine tank that Russia has lost in the largest numbers of any type after the T-72 — and the tank on which its claim to rebuild armour production rests, because Omsk restores T-80s from storage rather than building them new.
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia
Fielded Full 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)
Fielded Full record →
Tor-M2 family
Air defence- Role
- The Russian short-range air-defence system that is the Ground Forces' standard point-defence layer in the war against Ukraine — and, in Armenian service, the survivable layer of the country's air defence: bought before 2020, credited with some of the few Armenian drone intercepts of the war, and retained under the post-war rebuild alongside the Indian and French systems bought to replace what was lost.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Ukraine–Russia · Nagorno-Karabakh 2020
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full 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
Fielded Full record →