UAVs and drones

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 140. Chapters: Unmanned aerial vehicle, Radio-controlled aircraft, Miniature UAV, NASA Pathfinder, US Battlefield UAVs, History of unmanned aerial vehicles, Lockheed D-21/M-21, List of unmanned aerial vehicles, History of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles, Dassault nEUROn, Scaled Composites Proteus, Modern US endurance UAVs, Micro air vehicle, NASA ERAST Program, Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, Prehistory of endurance UAVs, XSM-73 Goose, Lockheed DC-130, Lavochkin La-17, General Atomics ALTUS, GAF Jindivik, DRDO Nishant, Canadair CL-89, Galileo Falco, DRDO Rustom, EADS Harfang, EADS Barracuda, Hydra Technologies Ehécatl, Maveric, DRDO Lakshya, General Atomics Avenger, General Atomics GNAT, TIHA, Denel Dynamics Bateleur, Boeing Phantom Eye, North American X-10, Culver Cadet, Eagle Aircraft 150B, Shahbal, Mirsad-1, Arcturus T-20, International Battlefield UAVs, Martin X-23 PRIME, BAE SkyEye, Apoena, Dassault AVE-D Petit Duc, CAC Fox, Alenia Aeronautica Sky-Y, Kettering Bug, Tupolev Tu-123, Lockheed Martin Polecat, Canadair CL-227 Sentinel, Alenia Aeronautica Sky-X, Freewing Scorpion, Dassault AVE-C Moyen Duc, Dassault LOGIDUC, Ababil, Project Isinglass, Alenia Aeronautica ITV, Propulsive Wing, DRS Sentry HP, 3 Sigma Nearchos, SATUMA Jasoos, Insitu Aerosonde, Teledyne Ryan Scarab, Argus As 292, Tupolev Tu-141, U.S. Military UAV tier system, Galileo Mirach 150, Galileo Mirach 26, Techno-Sud Vigilant, Altec MART, Integrated Sensor is Structure, SAGEM Crecerelle, SATUMA Mukhbar, UAV Battlelab, Dassault-Sagem SlowFast, Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk, Dassault AVE Grand Duc, Kamov Ka-137, Convair XSM-74, Tcuav, CAC K100, Armstechno NITI, MiG Skat, Fieseler Fi 157, Schiebel Camcopter S-100, Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft, Hydra Technologies Gavilán, NASA Mini-Sniffer, Persistent Munition Technology Demonstrator, Tupolev Tu-143, Lockheed X-7, Sojka III, SAGEM Sperwer, EMT Luna X-2000, Flying bomb, Tactical Control System, Mohajer, HAI Pegasus, RUAG Ranger, ST Aero Skyblade, Argus Fernfeuer, Rheinmetall KZO, First Person View, EMT Aladin, Kawasaki KAQ-1, ST Aero FanTail, Jordan Falcon, Kamov Ka-37, Casper 250, Trek Aerospace Dragonfly, AQM-60 Kingfisher, Yakovlev Pchela, Comparison of UAVs, Gorgon, Scaled Composites Model 395, Burraq, Target drone, Nostromo Yarará, BAE Skylynx II, Scaled Composites Model 396, AeroVironment SkyTote, DRDO Kapothaka, Swiss UAV, Insectothopter, BQM-90, Kentron Seeker, QinetiQ Mercator, Phantom Sentinel, Bell-Bristol Aerospace Hokum-X, Mohajer 4, UnKnown Aerospace Cygnet, Uqab, ST Aero MAV-1, Aerovision Fulmar, DRDO Fluffy, Unmanned Aircraft. Excerpt: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV; also known as a remotely piloted vehicle or RPV, or Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS)) is an aircraft that flies without a human crew on board the aircraft. Their largest uses are in military applications. To distinguish UAVs from missiles, a UAV is defined as a reusable, uncrewed vehicle capable of controlled, sustained, level flight and powered by a jet or reciprocating engine. Therefore, cruise missiles are not considered UAVs, because, like many other guided missiles, the vehicle itself is a weapon that is not reused, even though it is also unmanned and in some cases remotely guided. There are a wide variety of UAV shapes, sizes, configurations, and characteristics. Historically, UAVs were simple drones (remotely piloted aircraft), but autonomous control is increasingly being employed in UAVs. UAVs come in two variet...