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
Russia's Record Ballistic Barrage Kills at Least 30 in Deadliest Kyiv Strike Since May
A 570-weapon overnight barrage — including a record 28 ballistic missiles and new jet-powered "Geran" drones outrunning interceptors — killed at least 30 in Kyiv's worst strike since May.
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Defense & Combat
DoD UAS Group Classifications Explained: Group 1 Through Group 5
A reference guide to the Pentagon's five-group UAS classification system: weight, altitude, and speed thresholds from JP 3-30, its 2008 origins, real-world edge cases, and why the group a drone falls into shapes approval authority and training rules.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Magura Naval Drone Sinks a Target Ship in the Philippines — Its First Indo-Pacific Combat Debut
U.S. Green Berets used a Ukrainian-built Magura drone boat to sink a target vessel during Balikatan 2026, marking the first Indo-Pacific deployment of battle-tested Ukrainian naval-drone technology.
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Defense & Combat
SOCOM Wants a 75-Mile Kamikaze Drone Off the AC-130J — Wired Into Its FANTOM Core Autonomy Brain
SOCOM's late-June RFI seeks an air-launched loitering munition that flies 75 nm, loiters 40+ minutes, weighs under 95 lb, launches from the AC-130J, and plugs into the government-owned FANTOM Core autonomy network. Responses due July 27.
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Defense & Combat
Drone-on-Drone: Ukraine's Interceptors Chase Shaheds as Russia Fields Jet-Powered Gerans Nothing Can Catch
Russia's turbojet Geran-3 tops 370-500 km/h, outrunning the ~300 km/h interceptor drones Ukraine has been using to run down Shaheds — forcing scarce SAMs back into the fight and resetting the cost-exchange math of the air war.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's 'Sea Baby' Becomes a Drone Mothership — Launching FPV Swarms and Torpedoing a Russian Submarine
Ukraine's SBU-run Sea Baby has evolved from a one-way explosive boat into a mobile launch platform carrying 6–8 FPV drones and thermobaric Shmel rockets — while a companion 'Sub Sea Baby' struck the docked Kilo-class submarine B-271 Kolpino in what analysts call the first uncrewed underwater attack on a submarine.
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Defense & Combat
Soldiers Stay Under Cover: Oregon Guard Flies a Heavy-Lift Drone to Breach Wire With a WWII-Era Bangalore Torpedo
Oregon Army National Guard engineers flew a Lorica 'Mule 28' heavy-lift drone to carry, place, and detonate a live M1A3 Bangalore torpedo through concertina wire at Idaho's Orchard Combat Training Center, keeping soldiers out of a breach's deadliest phase.
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Defense & Combat
Putin Admits a Fuel 'Deficit' as Ukrainian Drones Hit Two Refineries in One Night
Ukrainian long-range drones struck refineries in Krasnodar and Yaroslavl on the night of June 28, 2026, as Putin acknowledged a fuel 'deficit' for the first time amid a June campaign of roughly 28 strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.
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Defense & Combat
Drones in the Strait: Iran's One-Way Attack Drones Hit Two Ships, Triggering Back-to-Back CENTCOM Strikes
Two one-way attack drones struck commercial vessels exiting the Strait of Hormuz on June 25 and 27, 2026, prompting two nights of U.S. strikes on Iranian drone-storage, radar and minelaying sites — and putting cheap loitering munitions at the center of a freedom-of-navigation crisis.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine's Top Strike-Drone Maker Turns to Missile Defense: Inside Fire Point's $700K 'Freyja' Interceptor
Fire Point, the firm behind Ukraine's FP-1/FP-2 deep-strike drones and FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile, is building 'Freyja,' a sub-$1M ballistic-missile interceptor around the FP-7.X, integrating German Hensoldt radar and aiming for a first operational intercept by end of 2027.
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Defense & Combat
Ukrainian Drones Knock Russia's Fourth-Largest Refinery Offline as Fuel Crisis Spreads
A June 24 Ukrainian drone strike forced Russia's NORSI refinery in Kstovo offline, damaging its primary CDU-5 crude unit as fuel-sales restrictions spread across Russian regions.
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Defense & Combat
Hezbollah's Fiber-Optic FPVs Are Killing IDF Soldiers and Bypassing Trophy
Hezbollah has deployed fiber-optic FPV drones in southern Lebanon that defeat electronic jamming and slip past Merkava tank active protection systems, killing at least four IDF soldiers and wounding dozens since March 2026.
