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
Ukraine's AI-Guided Hornet Drones and FP-1s Escalate Deep Strikes Inside Russia
Ukraine has fired over 10,000 AI-guided Hornet munitions in three months and used Fire Point's FP-1 drones to knock a major Rosneft refinery fully offline, marking a sharp escalation in autonomous deep-strike capability.
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Defense & Combat
After Losing a Quarter of Its Reapers Over Iran, the Air Force Pulls Its $10M 'Massed Modular Aircraft' Successor Forward Two Years
With at least 45 MQ-9s shot down in Operation Epic Fury and Reaper production already shut, the Air Force is dragging DIU's $10M-per-airframe Massed Modular Aircraft from a 2031 target to as early as 2029.
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Defense & Combat
Germany Formally Blames Russia for Leipzig Airport Drone Attack, Shuts Bonn Consulate
Berlin has formally attributed the August 4 explosive drone found near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport to Russia, closing Moscow's Bonn consulate and drawing NATO and EU statements of solidarity.
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Defense & Combat
Iran's Drone and Missile Barrage Hits Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait as CENTCOM Strikes IRGC Targets
After CENTCOM struck Iranian air-defense, radar and maritime sites on September 1, Iran fired drones and ballistic missiles at US and allied targets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait in the heaviest US-Iran exchange in over a month.
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Defense & Combat
Japan's Record ¥8.9 Trillion Defense Budget Bets Big on MQ-9B Drones and an 'AI Orchestrator'
Japan's Ministry of Defense filed a record ¥8.9 trillion FY2027 budget request on August 31, funding 17 MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones, Terra Drone interceptor and training UAVs, and new AI decision-support systems as it revises its core security strategy.
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Defense & Combat
Navy Opens Search for Carrier-Based CCA Drones With $30M Price Cap and Sept. 18 Deadline
NAVAIR's new RFI asks industry for two flight-ready, carrier-capable Collaborative Combat Aircraft prototypes priced under $30 million apiece, reviving a concept the Navy shelved a decade ago.
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Defense & Combat
Wing-in-Ground-Effect Drone Wraps Navy Trials: REGENT's Squire Seaglider Completes Silent Swarm
REGENT Craft's autonomous Squire seaglider logged its first freshwater runs and 13 days of drills at the Navy's Silent Swarm event, carrying external payloads under NSWC Crane and Pentagon R&E oversight.
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Defense & Combat
Green Berets Run First-Ever NATO Ally Drone Drill With Polish Special Forces in Germany
US Army Green Berets put Polish special forces through a new Ukraine-inspired drone infiltration exercise in Bavaria — the first time any NATO ally besides the US has run the drill, with plans to scale it across the alliance.
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Defense & Combat
Saab Unveils A3-001: A Stealthy, Supersonic Uncrewed Wingman for Sweden's Future Combat Air System
Saab has publicly revealed a full-scale mock-up of the A3-001, a tailless, DSI-equipped uncrewed combat aircraft it says goes beyond the US Air Force's CCA class, with first flight targeted before the end of 2027.
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Defense & Combat
US Army Shuts Down 173rd Airborne's Experimental Drone Battalion in Europe
Less than a year after standing up a 600-soldier drone battalion modeled on Ukraine's tactics, the Army is dissolving it and sending the 173rd Airborne back to core infantry duty.
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Defense & Combat
Army Awards Elroy Air $46M to Advance Chaparral Heavy-Lift Cargo Drone
The Army awarded Elroy Air a $46 million Phase III SBIR contract to add GPS-denied navigation, encrypted comms and expeditionary planning tools to its runway-independent Chaparral cargo drone.
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Defense & Combat
Rheinmetall Fires Its FV-014 Loitering Munition From a Moving Truck-Mounted Container for the First Time
Rheinmetall launched its FV-014 loitering munition from a containerized launcher mounted on a moving HX truck for the first time, at a DLR test site in Germany last month.
