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
DoD Drone Groups 1–5 Explained: The Classification That Governs Everything
The Pentagon's five-group UAS taxonomy determines who can buy a drone, which airspace it flies in, who is responsible for shooting it down, and what legal authorities apply. Here is how it works and why it is under strain.
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Defense & Combat
The Shahed-136, Explained: How a Lawn-Mower Engine Rewrote Air-Defense Economics
A reverse-engineered German piston engine, a delta wing, and a 50 kg warhead — the Shahed-136 has become the most-launched weapon of the Ukraine war and the template for a new doctrine of cost-imposition warfare that three militaries now build on.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's FP-5 Flamingo Strikes Complete Samara Refinery Hub Shutdown
Overnight strikes on the Kuibyshev oil refinery June 10 knocked out both primary crude distillation units, completing a sequential campaign that has taken all three Rosneft Samara-hub refineries offline. Fuel shortages now affect at least 25 Russian regions.
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Defense & Combat
Senate NDAA Panel Wants a Four-Star Drone Command to Fix the Stovepipe Problem
The Senate Armed Services Committee's FY2027 NDAA includes a provision permitting a new Robotic and Autonomous Systems Combatant Command, a four-star headquarters with acquisition authority designed to end service-by-service drone silos — but it is a committee bill, not law.
