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 →
Conflict coverage · Eastern Europe
Force Structure
Every published organisation on both sides, as an order of battle you can walk: pick a formation, see the parent above it and its subordinates below, and read what the record itself states.
Context, not targeting. This atlas describes structure and history. It deliberately excludes current locations, live strength, unit movements, and anything operationally sensitive — the content model has no fields for them. See the methodology.
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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 →