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
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.
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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.
