The same steel box that runs global trade now hides cruise missiles, drone swarms, lasers and rocket artillery. This is a running catalogue of every military system built to travel — and fire — as ordinary freight, from Russia's 2010 Club-K to the prototypes rolled out in 2026.
By decoupling a weapon from a bespoke, billion-dollar platform, the ISO container turns any truck, rail car, patrol boat or merchant hull into a launcher. It buys concealment, distributes firepower across a resilient "kill web," and lets forces reload from a commercial crane at an austere port.
It also erodes the line between soldier and civilian. A cruise missile disguised as freight invites the charge of perfidy, and pushes commanders toward treating all commercial traffic as a potential threat. The systems below span three postures — read the connector colour on each: