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
The ZALA Lancet: Inside Russia's Most Effective Loitering Munition
From its distinctive double-X wing geometry to the contested AI claims and the container-launched Product-53 successor, a technical breakdown of the loitering munition that has hunted more Western-supplied artillery in Ukraine than any other single Russian system.
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Defense & Combat
MQ-25 Stingray: How the Navy's First Carrier Drone Solves a Decades-Old Tanker Problem
The MQ-25A Stingray is the U.S. Navy's first operational carrier-based unmanned aircraft — a purpose-built aerial tanker that doubles the combat radius of F/A-18s and F-35Cs while freeing multiple fighters per air wing from buddy-tanker duty.
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Defense & Combat
Pocket ISR: How Nano and Micro Drones Rewired Squad-Level Reconnaissance
From a 16-gram helicopter checking walls in Afghanistan to a 70-gram system with thermal imaging deployed across 50 countries, nano-UAS technology has pushed intelligence collection down to the fire team — and the next frontier is autonomous swarms constrained by battery physics.
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Defense & Combat
Russia's Orlan-10: The Drone That Tells Artillery Where to Shoot
The Orlan-10 has been Russia's most-deployed tactical UAV since the 2014 Donbas conflict — a catapult-launched reconnaissance and artillery-spotting platform built almost entirely from Western and Chinese components, now surging out of a sanctioned St. Petersburg factory at 53 times its pre-war rate.
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Defense & Combat
RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton: America's Eyes at 60,000 Feet, Explained
The RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton are the U.S. military's primary high-altitude, long-endurance ISR platforms — one headed for retirement after a decade of Congressional standoffs, the other cementing its role as the Navy's maritime surveillance backbone through the 2030s.
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Defense & Combat
Beyond the TB2: Turkey's Akinci and Aksungur Redefine the UCAV Export Tier
The Bayraktar TB2 put Turkey on the drone map, but two larger platforms—Baykar's Akinci UCAV and TAI's Aksungur—represent the next tier of Turkish strike capability, now operating in more than a dozen countries and carrying cruise missiles and air-launched drones.
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Defense & Combat
Drone Boats at War: How Uncrewed Surface Vessels Rewrote Naval Combat
Ukraine's Magura V5 and Sea Baby USVs sank warships, struck bridges, and drove Russia's Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol — without Ukraine deploying a single conventional warship. Here's how the platforms work, what they've accomplished, and what the U.S. Navy is building in response.
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Defense & Combat
The Undersea Drone Explained: UUV Categories, Programs, and the Race Below
Uncrewed undersea vehicles now patrol the same cables that carry 97% of global communications. From man-portable REMUS scouts to 85-ton Orca XLUUVs, this is how the U.S. Navy classifies, builds, and struggles to field them — and why China is moving faster.
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Defense & Combat
Bayraktar TB2: The $5M Drone That Rewrote Armed UAV Economics
At one-quarter the price of an MQ-9 Reaper, Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 cracked open the armed-drone export market to 36 countries — while its Ukraine combat arc exposed the real limits of what a piston-engine MALE can do against a peer adversary that adjusts.
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Defense & Combat
From the Kettering Bug to Ukraine's FPV Swarms: Military Drones Explained
A century of military drone history — from a WWI pilotless biplane that never flew in combat, through Israeli operational doctrine and American Cold War scaling, to the commodity FPV revolution reshaping land warfare in Ukraine.
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Defense & Combat
Iran's Drone Program Explained: Industrial Roots, Reverse-Engineering, and Global Proliferation
Iran's UAS program spans four decades, two state factories, and a systematic reverse-engineering doctrine that has armed proxies from Lebanon to Ukraine. A primer on its industrial base, platform families, IRGC command architecture, and the cost-imposition strategy now reshaping modern warfare.
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Defense & Combat
MQ-9 Reaper Explained: Platform, Variants, and the Replacement Reckoning
The MQ-9 Reaper defined two decades of American persistent strike and surveillance, but Houthi losses have forced a survivability reckoning. Full platform profile — specs, variants, operators, combat record, and the MQ-9 Next requirement.
