From Russia’s nuclear‑powered Burevestnik cruise missile and Poseidon tsunami‑torpedo to America’s Dark Eagle hypersonic, China’s YJ‑20 ship‑killer, Turkey’s Bayraktar Kizilelma fighter‑drone and India’s long‑range Pinaka rockets, 2025 turned conflict zones—from Ukraine and Gaza to Yemen and Thailand—into testbeds for next‑gen killing machines. Awesome or awful, you decide.