Defense & Combat
Military drone news from UASFeed — UAS programs, battlefield lessons from Ukraine and beyond, loitering munitions, and how uncrewed systems are changing combat.
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Defense & Combat
Orqa, KEF Robotics and Blue Arrow Defense Beat GPS Jamming at Army Special Forces' First Drone Team Competition
At Fort McClellan's first Watchtower drone competition, Green Berets tested a jam-resistant navigation and C2 package from Orqa US, KEF Robotics and Blue Arrow Defense — built on Ukraine-tested visual navigation and a scaling US manufacturing base.
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Defense & Combat
US and UK Fire Mk 48 Torpedo From an Uncrewed Submarine for the First Time
The Royal Navy's XV Excalibur became the first uncrewed underwater vehicle to fire a US Mk 48 Heavyweight Torpedo, a milestone AUKUS test that sets up the Anduril Dive-XL-based Project CUTLASS.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine Fields New Interceptor Drones as Russia's Jet-Powered Shaheds Outrun Its Missile Stocks
Ukraine unveiled two new anti-Shahed interceptor drones in days, racing to close a gap ISW says leaves Ukrainian forces short on the air-to-air missiles needed to stop Russia's faster, jet-powered Geran variants.
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Defense & Combat
Britain Buys Tekever's AR5 to Replace Watchkeeper and Fields 1,025 Small Spy Drones Under 'Recce Strike'
The British Army is pairing a GBP400M Tekever AR5 buy to replace Watchkeeper with a GBP16M order for more than 1,025 small ISR quadcopters, the first Recce Strike contracts announced at DVD 2026.
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Defense & Combat
Pentagon's Drone Dominance Gauntlet II Names Perennial Autonomy and Neros Top Performers, Setting Up 60,000 Low-Cost Strike Drone Orders
The Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program posted its Gauntlet II leaderboards: Perennial Autonomy won deep strike, Neros won close quarters battle, and roughly 60,000 low-cost drones will be ordered, with per-vendor quantities still unsettled.
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Defense & Combat
Army Cuts Rafael, Advances Lockheed and Boeing-Anduril to Next Phase of IFPC Increment 2 Interceptor Race
The Army has narrowed its IFPC Increment 2 interceptor competition to Lockheed Martin and a Boeing-Anduril team, dropping Rafael's US arm as the program moves toward a competitive demonstration to fill the air-defense gap below Patriot and THAAD.
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Defense & Combat
Army Moves TITAN Targeting System Into Production With $192M Split Between Palantir and Anduril
The Army's TITAN ground-station program has left prototyping for full production, with Anduril taking a $65M hardware slice to build eight new mobile intelligence nodes alongside Palantir's software lead.
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Defense & Combat
Russia Hits Nine Ukrainian Oblasts in a Single Night, Blacking Out Power From Kyiv to Kharkiv
A 161-drone barrage mixing Shaheds, jet-powered variants, Gerbera decoys and a loitering S8000 Banderol struck nine Ukrainian oblasts overnight September 11, knocking out power and hitting a chemical plant deep inside Russia in return.
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Defense & Combat
Iran Seizes Disabled Anduril Dive-LD Drone Sub at Strait of Hormuz
Iran's IRGC Navy captured a malfunctioning US Navy Anduril Dive-LD underwater drone at the Strait of Hormuz on September 8, hours after CENTCOM sank five IRGC tankers in an escalating maritime confrontation.
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Defense & Combat
China's Tailless WZ-X Stealth Drone Surfaces in Flight Trials at Xinjiang's 'Area 51'
New flight-test images from Malan Air Base confirm China is flying a 52-meter tailless flying-wing UAV dubbed WZ-X, a design analysts say points toward an unmanned stealth ISR/bomber platform on the scale of the CH-7.
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Defense & Combat
Documents Trace 46 Tons of Chinese Carbon Fiber Straight to Russia's Kamikaze Drone Plant
Shipping records verified by a U.S. House committee show state-owned Jilin Chemical Fiber Group sent 46 tons of drone-grade carbon fiber precursor directly to Russia's sanctioned Alabuga-Volokno plant — enough for roughly 1,300 attack drones.
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Defense & Combat
72 Hours of Escalation: Ukraine's Drones Hit Kyiv, a Saratov Refinery, and Russia's Only A-50U Repair Hub
Ukrainian drones hit the Taganrog plant that repairs Russia's scarce A-50U AWACS fleet and set a Saratov refinery ablaze, while retaliatory strikes killed at least seven across Kyiv, Bryansk, Belgorod and Crimea in a single 72-hour window.
