RH POWER NETWORK · UNITED STATES ARSENAL
The equipment behind U.S. military power.
Stealth fighters. Heavy lift. Persistent surveillance. Long-range weapons. Explore selected systems across America's armed forces, with dated quantities, clearly labeled ranges and the evidence behind each entry.
Explore the systems- Selected systems
- 25
- Categories
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- Source focus
- 2025 / 26
- Reviewed
- 9 Sep 2026
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A force in continuous renewal
Newer systems such as the F-15EX, CH-53K and PrSM sit alongside upgraded, long-serving platforms. Select a tile to see its role, public inventory evidence, range basis and source record. Quantities and ranges remain secondary data points.
- Fielded systems
- Modernizing fleets
- Variant-specific evidence
- Unverified stockpiles
Showing 25 selected systems across four categories.
Dated quantities; labeled range types in km. How we count · Reading ranges
Jets
8Helicopters
6Drones
4Missiles
7THE WIDER EQUIPMENT PICTURE
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Method and limits
How we count
Reviewed 9 September 2026. Aircraft quantities generally preserve FlightGlobal/Cirium's 2026 directory, with a baseline initially compiled on 1 October 2025. The B-2 uses the Air Force's May 2026 fact sheet. Neither is a live readiness count.
F-35A, F-16C/D and F/A-18E/F quantities explicitly combine the identified combat and training rows within one service. Other services, foreign operators, orders and future production are excluded. F-15, Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook family totals do not become variant-specific counts.
“Not publicly verified” means this review did not establish a suitable current quantity. It means unknown, not zero. Missile purchases, annual production, cumulative deliveries, launches and launcher counts are different measures from an available stockpile.
Reading ranges
Ferry range, unrefueled flight distance, combat flight range, mission radius and missile engagement range are labeled separately. A mission radius allows for a return journey; a ferry distance is not a combat radius. Endurance in hours and sensor or datalink reach do not become aircraft flight distance.
Numerical distances use kilometers, rounded from the source. RH converts one nautical mile to 1.852 km and one statute mile to 1.609344 km. When an official page prints inconsistent unit equivalents, the chosen source unit and conversion are identified in the entry.
Fuel, payload, variant and mission profile affect performance. Future upgrades do not become present-day capability. The Navy lists AIM-174B range as classified; no guessed distance or surface-launched SM-6 range is substituted.
Selection and source limits
This selected guide covers eight jets, six helicopters, four drones and seven missile or guided-rocket systems. It is not a complete U.S. order of battle. Ships, submarines, armor, logistics aircraft, space systems and the strategic missile inventory are outside this edition.
Service publications, manufacturer references and the fleet directory serve different purposes. Manufacturer claims are attributed. Older technical references remain labeled with their dates; a recent review date does not make an old specification new.
Images and attribution
Every tile has a credited reference image. Test aircraft, development rounds, family-level images and illustrations are labeled. The JASSM image establishes the missile family, not the ER subvariant. Photographs do not establish today's inventory, readiness or an identical configuration.
Image authors and reuse terms are linked in each detail panel. Public-domain U.S. government material and licensed photography do not imply endorsement of RH. No bases, deployment locations, coverage rings, vulnerabilities or real-time force posture are mapped here.
Source record
- 01FlightGlobal / Cirium World Air Forces 2026 ↗
U.S. tables, PDF pages 33–34, visually checked. Baseline initially compiled 1 October 2025. Combat and training rows are explicitly combined only where identified. Listed aircraft are not today's mission-capable inventory.
- 02U.S. Air Force: F-35A Lightning II ↗
Variant-specific role and internal-fuel range reference; the 1,200+ nautical-mile figure is converted to kilometers. F-35B/C and future upgrades are excluded.
- 03U.S. Air Force: F-22 Raptor ↗
Ferry-range reference with two external fuel tanks, not combat radius.
- 04Boeing: F-15EX Eagle II ↗
Current product reference, reviewed 9 September 2026. No configuration-specific numerical range or current U.S. inventory established here.
- 05U.S. Air Force: F-16 Fighting Falcon ↗
September 2021 technical reference; ferry distance is not combat radius. The older inventory figure is not reused.
- 06NAVAIR: F/A-18E/F Super Hornet ↗
Ferry reference with external tanks. RH converts the source's nautical miles consistently rather than copying its differently rounded metric equivalent.
- 07U.S. Navy: EA-18G Growler ↗
17 September 2021 specification: 850+ nautical miles labeled combat range, with external fuel. The page does not call that figure a combat radius.
- 08U.S. Air Force: B-2 Spirit, May 2026 ↗
Lists 20 active-force aircraft, including one test aircraft. Its 6,000 nautical miles and 9,600 km are inconsistent; RH preserves the nautical-mile figure and gives the explicit standard conversion.
- 09U.S. Air Force: B-52H Stratofortress ↗
June 2019 technical reference for unrefueled flight range. Future B-52J re-engining performance is excluded; fleet count uses the 2026 directory.
- 10Boeing: AH-64E Apache ↗
Current E-model product reference. Worldwide deliveries are not U.S. inventory. Future Modernized Apache performance is not assigned to fielded AH-64Es.
- 11Sikorsky / Lockheed Martin: UH-60M Black Hawk ↗
Utility M-model reference. Auxiliary fuel options change range; no numerical distance with a sufficiently clear configuration is established in this source.
- 12Boeing: CH-47F Chinook Block II ↗
Current Block II specification gives a 165 nautical-mile mission radius. This is not a fleet-wide maximum flight distance.
- 13Bell: AH-1Z Viper ↗
Manufacturer separates maximum range, 310 nautical miles, from combat radius, 131 nautical miles. Reference load and fuel reserve conditions apply.
- 14Bell: UH-1Y Venom specifications ↗
Maximum range 325 nautical miles; combat radius 119 nautical miles is a different metric. Published reference assumptions do not describe every mission.
- 15U.S. Navy: CH-53K King Stallion ↗
23 September 2021 reference: 110 nautical-mile mission radius with 27,000 lb external payload in specified hot/high conditions. Older nine-aircraft delivery count is superseded here by the 2026 directory.
- 16U.S. Air Force: MQ-9 Reaper, January 2025 ↗
Separates baseline 1,000 nautical-mile range from extended-range 1,400 nautical miles. Its inventory of 50 is explicitly AFSOC only, not the total U.S. fleet.
- 17General Atomics: Gray Eagle ↗
Baseline aircraft reference gives 25-hour endurance, not a verified maximum flight distance. Gray Eagle ER and 25M are distinct configurations.
- 18U.S. Army Redstone Test Center: Gray Eagle test, 25 March 2026 ↗
Dated Army demonstration supports continued program relevance; test activity is not evidence of the size or readiness of the operational fleet.
- 19U.S. Air Force: RQ-4 Global Hawk technical reference ↗
October 2014 specification: 12,300 nautical miles. Its obsolete 33-aircraft count is not reused; the range is a dated reference, not current operational performance.
- 20U.S. Air Force: RQ-4B Block 40 reporting, 15 June 2026 ↗
Confirms continuing RQ-4B Block 40 activity in 2026. No deployment locations or current force posture are reproduced in this guide.
- 21NAVAIR: MQ-4C Triton ↗
Current product reference gives 7,400 nautical miles and 24-plus-hour endurance. These are aircraft performance references, not sensor or datalink radius.
- 22U.S. Navy: Tomahawk Cruise Missile ↗
Block IV/V TLAM-E range is 900 nautical miles in this reference. RH converts nautical miles at 1.852 km; older retired variants and future subvariants are not blended.
- 23Lockheed Martin: JASSM development and extended range ↗
Manufacturer reference for JASSM-ER exceeding 500 nautical miles. Baseline JASSM and later longer-range developments are not interchangeable.
- 24NAVAIR: Long Range Anti-Ship Missile ↗
Official role reference does not establish an exact public numerical range or current U.S. stockpile.
- 25NAVAIR: precision-strike program update, 1 March 2025 ↗
Discusses LRASM deployment progress. Procurement, integration and test events do not establish available missile stocks.
- 26U.S. Army: first PrSM delivery, 8 December 2023 ↗
First-delivery announcement states range greater than 400 km. Later-increment objectives are excluded.
- 27U.S. Army Acquisition: PrSM modernization update, 2026 ↗
Discusses Increment 1 early operational capability and subsequent development. Planned 1,000 km variants are not credited to the fielded Increment 1 entry.
- 28Lockheed Martin: GMLRS and production, 2024 ↗
Distinguishes the standard 70 km class rocket from ER GMLRS at 150 km. Cumulative worldwide deliveries are not the U.S. stockpile.
- 29Lockheed Martin: PAC-3 media kit ↗
MSE improves range and altitude over CRI, but this source does not give an absolute numerical engagement range. Patriot battery counts and production rates are not interceptor stocks.
- 30U.S. Navy: AIM-174B Gunslinger, 22 August 2026 ↗
Official entry identifies the air-launched missile and labels its range classified. Surface-launched SM-6 figures are not substituted.
