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2. Unmanned aerial vehicle - Wikipedia

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   An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or unmanned aircraft system (UAS), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft with no human pilot, crew, or passengers onboard. UAVs were originally developed through the twentieth century for military missions too "dull, dirty or dangerous" [ 1 ] for humans, and by the twenty-first, they had become essential ...

3. History of unmanned aerial vehicles - Wikipedia

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   The earliest recorded use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for warfighting occurred in July 1849, [2] [3] serving as a balloon carrier (the precursor to the aircraft carrier) [4] is the first offensive use of air power in naval aviation.

4. Unmanned aerial vehicles in the United States military

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   United States unmanned aerial vehicles demonstrators in 2005. As of January 2014, the United States military operates a large number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, also known as Unmanned Aircraft Systems [UAS]): 7,362 RQ-11 Ravens; 990 AeroVironment Wasp IIIs; 1,137 AeroVironment RQ-20 Pumas; 306 RQ-16 T-Hawk small UAS systems; 246 MQ-1 Predators; MQ-1C Gray Eagles; 126 MQ-9 Reapers; 491 ...

5. What are drones and who can fly them? What to know amid ...

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   Drones, a term comprising any uncrewed aerial vehicle piloted remotely, are widely used among hobbyists, commercial users and the military for a variety of purposes.. The aircraft are regulated by ...

6. What we know about the mysterious drones reported over the ...

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   Drones, a broad term for unmanned aerial vehicles, are widely owned across the United States. A total of 791,597 drones are registered with the FAA, nearly evenly divided between commercial and ...

7. Unmanned combat aerial vehicle - Wikipedia

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   A British MQ-9A Reaper operating over Afghanistan in 2009. An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone, fighter drone or battlefield UAV, is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries aircraft ordnance such as missiles, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), and/or bombs in hardpoints ...

8. Pentagon announces new counter-drone strategy as unmanned ...

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   The Pentagon unveiled a new counter-drone strategy after a spate of incursions near U.S. bases prompted concerns over a lack of an action plan for the increasing threat of unmanned aerial vehicles.

9. History of unmanned combat aerial vehicles - Wikipedia

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   Operation Aphrodite in 1944 saw the USAAF and US Navy using radio-controlled, unmanned bombers as precision-guided munitions. [6] [page needed] The Interstate TDR was a purpose-built unmanned aerial combat vehicle that saw some use in WWII. The V-1 flying bomb was an early cruise missile used extensively by Nazi Germany 1944-5.