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
NAVSEA Wants a 400-Foot Drone Mothership for SOUTHCOM: Inside the Special Mission Vessel RFI
A NAVSEA RFI posted 20 July seeks a 300-400 ft Special Mission Vessel built to launch and recover Class 2/3 VTOL drones, USVs, small craft and Seahawks as a SOUTHCOM counternarcotics sea base - with 9,600 nm range, 30-day endurance and secure space for 10-12 detainees.
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Defense & Combat
$80 Million for Copper and Steel: The Army Buys a Domestic Drone-Motor Stator Line in Anniston
The Army just paid Siemens Government Technologies $79,988,134 to stand up a government-controlled drone-motor stator line in Anniston, Alabama — the second motor-production bet in a month, and still no answer on the 90% China-sourced magnets that go inside.
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Defense & Combat
The Pentagon Wants a Drone That Comes Home: $32M for 1,200 Reusable Bombers at $20,000 a Copy
Phase 2.5 "Mission C" of the Drone Dominance Program asks industry for reusable 55-pound bomber drones that survive at least 30 sorties — 150 preferred — at $20,000 apiece, a pointed break from the disposable one-way attack drones the program has bought so far.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Overnight Drones Go After the Supply Lines Feeding Russia's Own Drone Factories
Ukraine says its overnight July 18 long-range raid hit two Russian logistics centers moving sanctioned drone components, an oil depot near Moscow, and Black Sea/Azov naval targets — a supply-chain-interdiction turn in the deep-strike campaign.
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Defense & Combat
China's Type 076 'Sichuan' Becomes the World's First Amphibious Assault Ship to Catapult-Launch Combat Drones
New close-up footage of China's first Type 076, Sichuan, confirms an electromagnetic catapult and arresting gear tuned for fixed-wing UAVs — a drone-carrier capability no U.S. or NATO amphibious ship currently fields.
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Defense & Combat
Two Drones a Day: Ukraine Codified 413 New UAS in Six Months — and Nearly 90% Are Homemade
Ukraine's Defence Ministry says it codified 413 new unmanned aerial systems in the first half of 2026 — more than two a day, up 30% on 2025 — with copter strike drones and jam-immune fiber-optic systems leading the mix.
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Defense & Combat
Navy Wants a Family of Carrier-Based Drones That Can Do Everything From Strikes to Aerial Refueling
A July 14 Navy RFI seeks a modular "Air Wing of the Future" family of carrier-based drones spanning eight missions, from strike and air-to-air combat to refueling and resupply, with responses due Aug. 13.
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Defense & Combat
Sea, Land, and Air: Ukraine Pulls Off the First Fully Unmanned Amphibious Assault at Kinburn Spit
Ukraine's 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade landed an armed robotic boat-ferried machine-gun UGV on Russian-held Kinburn Spit under drone watch on July 13, 2026 — with zero humans in any domain, what analysts call the first fully unmanned combined-domain amphibious raid in history.
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Defense & Combat
Drone Motherships Explained: Air, Sea, and Ground Launch Platforms Compared
A taxonomy of the drone-mothership concept across air, sea, and ground domains — from robotic combat vehicles and containerized launchers to submarine tenders — and why range-stacking and cost asymmetry are reshaping every branch of warfare.
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Defense & Combat
What Military Drones Actually Cost, Platform by Platform
A verified cost ladder across drone classes, from $500 FPV strike drones to a $618 million MQ-4C Triton, showing why unit cost, all-up-round cost, and program cost are not the same number.
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Defense & Combat
How Military Drone Pilots Are Trained: Inside the UAS Pipeline
From Air Force officers flying MQ-9 Reapers to Army 15Ws at Fort Huachuca to squad-level FPV familiarization, a look at how the U.S. military actually trains drone operators, and how South Korea and Ukraine compare.
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Defense & Combat
MALE and HALE UAV Deliveries in 2026: Who's Shipping What
A reference guide to medium- and high-altitude long-endurance drone deliveries in 2026: MQ-9B handovers across Europe and Asia, NATO's Triton letter of intent, Baykar's Akinci production surge, China's Wing Loong assembly lines, Israel's Heron Mk II squadron, and the Eurodrone that still isn't shipping.
