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
- Russia–Ukraine
Conflict Module · Eastern Europe
Faction & Force Atlas
The broad, publicly documented structure and history of the forces involved — and a small shared library of the equipment they field.
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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Force Structure
Structural · historical · non-operationalUkrainian forces
Russian forces
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Equipment Library
Recognition cards · not a databaseCross-conflict platform profiles, deliberately few: representative systems that unit profiles and key events link to, each with a permanent page.
2S22 Bohdana
Artillery- Role
- Ukraine's domestically produced NATO-calibre howitzer — the symbol of its wartime artillery industry.
- Origin
- Ukraine
- Also appears in
- Russia–Ukraine
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
- Russia–Ukraine
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Nagorno-Karabakh · Libya · Syria
BMP-2 family
Infantry fighting vehicle- Role
- The ubiquitous mechanised-infantry workhorse on both sides of the front.
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Also appears in
- Russia–Ukraine · Middle East · Africa · Caucasus
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Middle East
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Middle East · global service
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Middle East
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Syria
Leopard 2 family
Main battle tank- Role
- The principal Western-donated main battle tank family in Ukrainian service.
- Origin
- Germany
- Also appears in
- Russia–Ukraine
M142 HIMARS
Rocket artillery- Role
- Precision deep-strike rocket artillery that reshaped Russian logistics in 2022.
- Origin
- United States
- Also appears in
- Russia–Ukraine · Middle East
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Iraq · Middle East
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Iraq · Middle East
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
- Russia–Ukraine
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Middle East
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Syria
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
- Russia–Ukraine
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Syria · global export
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Middle East
Su-34
Combat aircraft- Role
- The workhorse of the Russian glide-bomb campaign.
- Origin
- Russia
- Also appears in
- Russia–Ukraine · Syria
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
- Russia–Ukraine
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Syria · Nagorno-Karabakh · Iraq
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
- Russia–Ukraine · Syria (T-90A)
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
- Russia–Ukraine
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
- Russia–Ukraine