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506 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 1 of 9.

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1PasswordCAPopular enterprise and consumer password manager; developer vaults were harvested by the malicious Nx Console extension.
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A-10 WarthogUSUS close-air-support aircraft built around a 30mm cannon, now hunting Iranian fast-attack craft.
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A400M Parallel Mission SystemFRA palletised roll-on/roll-off mission system that adds intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and command-and-control capabilities to the A400M military transport aircraft.
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Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline (ADCOP)AE370 km pipeline from Abu Dhabi's interior to Fujairah, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
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Adidas TriondaDEThe Adidas Trionda is the official match ball of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, cited by goalkeepers and analysts for flight characteristics contributing to the record goal rate.
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Adobe ColdFusionAdobe's enterprise web application server.
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AeroVironment PumaUSAeroVironment's hand-launched, battery-powered fixed-wing surveillance drone, designated RQ-20 by the US military.
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Aframax80,000-120,000 DWT crude tanker class; key vessel on Baltic Russia routes TD7 and TD19.
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AgentforceUSSalesforce's enterprise AI agent platform for customer service, sales and business processes.
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Agios Fanourios IMTMalta-flagged VLCC that made a second Gulf transit attempt on 15 April 2026, challenging claims the US Hormuz blockade is total.
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AH-64 ApacheUSBoeing attack helicopter; the US Army's primary rotary-wing strike platform, operating in both the Strait of Hormuz and as the target aircraft for the UK's Project NYX loyal wingman programme.
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AI DriverWayve's end-to-end neural network AV software; chip-agnostic, learns from human demonstration rather than hard-coded rules.
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AI Economic IndicatorsUSA continuously updated public dashboard platform from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab tracking AI's labour-market impact.
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AI EyeQUSHarmonic's AI content-aware encoding module; cuts video delivery bitrate by up to 50%.
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AI Governance DesignJPHakuhodo consulting service that sells its internal AI governance process to clients.
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AI ModeUSGoogle's conversational search feature combining AI answers, follow-up questions and links to web sources.
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AI OverviewsUSGoogle Search summaries generated with AI, drawing on web content and linking to sources.
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AjaxGBUK Army armoured fighting vehicle; £6.3bn spent, only 165 of 589 delivered after years of failures.
AkinciTRBaykar's twin-engine HALE UCAV; Saudi Arabia's parallel deal at SAHA 2026 is Turkey's largest-ever aviation export.
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AksungurTRTurkish Aerospace twin-engine armed drone; Nigeria's air force lists 12 as expected aircraft.
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Al DasmaKWKuwaiti Aframax oil tanker damaged twice in the Strait of Hormuz in 2026.
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Alexey KosyginRURussia's first domestically built Arc7 LNG carrier, delivered January 2026 by Zvezda Shipyard.
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Alfa WatanTGTogo-flagged cargo ship sunk by drones in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone on 6 October 2026.
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Al FuntasKWKuwaiti very large crude carrier, IMO 9653408, operated by Kuwait Oil Tankers Company.
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AlphaGoGBGoogle DeepMind AI program that defeated world Go champion; developed by David Silver's team.
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AlphaZeroGBGoogle DeepMind AI program generalising AlphaGo to chess and shogi; developed by David Silver's team.
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Al QaiyyahQAQatarEnergy-operated LNG tanker that carried the first Golden Pass export cargo on 22 April 2026.
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Al RekayyatQALNG carrier operated by Nakilat, hit by IRGC missiles in the Strait of Hormuz on 7 July 2026.
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Amazon Web ServicesUSAmazon's cloud computing division; the largest cloud infrastructure platform by market share.
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AMD MI355XUSAMD's CDNA-architecture AI accelerator chip deployed in Cambridge DAWN supercomputer expansion, May 2026.
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AN-196UAUkrainian long-range one-way attack drone designed by Antonov, also called the Liutyi.
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ANAVIA HT-100 NAVALCHANAVIA's naval uncrewed helicopter for ship-based operations.
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Antonov An-124Soviet heavy-lift cargo aircraft; used to fly Chang'e 7 spacecraft to Wenchang in April 2026.
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AnuraPrimordial Labs' natural-language interface letting soldiers talk to a UGV.
AnvilUSAnduril's autonomous counter-drone interceptor; $1.98bn Kuwait sale approved 6 June 2026.
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APKWSUSAdvanced Precision Kill Weapon System, a laser-guidance conversion kit for unguided rockets, deployed by RAF Typhoons for counter-drone operations at approximately £20,000 per shot.
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Apollo laserAUElectro Optic Systems' containerised 100-kilowatt laser weapon for destroying drones.
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Apple MusicUSApple's music streaming service; position on AI-track labelling under EU AI Act pressure.
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AR3PTTekever fixed-wing ISR drone; 10,000+ operational hours in Ukraine; OVERMATCH contract.
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AR6Tekever's heavy-lift autonomous drone family, carrying a 200kg payload to 500km, unveiled at Farnborough on 21 July 2026.
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Arabe-class destroyerFRFrench Navy destroyers built in Japan in 1917
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Arc7RUArctic-rated LNG carrier class; 15 vessels built for Yamal exports, 11 European-owned.
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Arctic LNG 2RUNovatek's sanctioned LNG export plant on Russia's Gydan Peninsula, shipping cargoes to China since 2025.
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Arion-SMETKRHanwha Aerospace's armed ground robot, ordered for South Korea's army and marines from 2027.
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Arista EOSUSArista EOS (Extensible Operating System) is the network OS running on Arista switches; CVE-2026-7473 affects the 7020R, 7280R and 7500R series.
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ARK-1UAUkrainian four-wheel-drive UGV airdropped behind Russian lines carrying anti-tank mines.
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Astore LevanteTB3-derived combat drone unveiled by LBA Systems, mating Baykar's airframe with Leonardo systems.
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AsyncOSCisco security operating system for its email and web security appliances.
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Atos Sovereign CloudFREU-engineered cloud platform launched by Atos on open-source components for government, defence and healthcare buyers.
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Avid Media ComposerUSAvid's professional non-linear video editing software, the dominant system in broadcast and film post-production.
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AWS GovCloudAmazon's isolated US federal-government cloud region, separate from its commercial AWS service.
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Axios npm packageZZJavaScript HTTP library; v1.14.1 and v0.30.4 backdoored by North Korea's UNC1069 on 31 March 2026.
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AzureUSMicrosoft's cloud platform, preliminarily designated a DMA gatekeeper alongside AWS in June 2026.
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Azure GovernmentMicrosoft's isolated US federal-government cloud region, separate from its commercial Azure service.
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B-52 StratofortressUSBoeing long-range heavy bomber flown by the US Air Force since 1955.
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Balbooa FormsA Joomla web-forms extension; carried a KEV-listed vulnerability added to CISA's catalogue on 10 July 2026.
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Barkan 3TRHavelsan unmanned ground vehicle unveiled in May 2026 after completing eight-unit autonomous swarm field trials.
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Bayraktar TB3TRBaykar's combat-proven drone airframe underlying the Astore Levante.
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BeyondTrust Remote SupportUSBeyondTrust remote support software that lets help desks control users' computers.
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BF IslandBuzzFeed's Branch Office app; group messaging plus AI image editing for social sharing.