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  2. 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 ...

  3. List of United States drone bases - Wikipedia

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    Umm Al Melh Border Guards Airport [9] since 2011 [9] bombing Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIL in Yemen [10][11] secret CIA base [10] Seychelles. United States drone base in Seychelles, Seychelles International Airport. since 2009. surveillance of Al-Shabaab over Somalia.

  4. UAS groups of the United States military - Wikipedia

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    UAS groups of the United States military. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) classifies unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into "Groups" according to their size and capability, a joint system that replaced the service branches' separate categorization schemes in 2011. [1][2][3] The "Group" system has five categories, whose capabilities increase ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of unmanned aerial vehicles - Wikipedia

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    Aibotix Aibot X6, multicopter for mapping and industry [85] AiDrones AiD-H14, industrial helicopter UAV [86] AiDrones AiD-H25, industrial helicopter UAV [87] AiDrones AiD-H40, industrial helicopter UAV [87] EMT Aladin, reconnaissance [88] Argus As 292, anti-aircraft target drone (1937) Argus Fernfeuer.

  7. List of unmanned aerial vehicle applications - Wikipedia

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    UAVs are used by a broad range of military forces, from Argentina [12] to the US and also by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).. As of January 2014, the U.S. military operated 7,362 RQ-11B Ravens; 145 AeroVironment RQ-12A Wasps; 1,137 AeroVironment RQ-20A Pumas; 306 RQ-16 T-Hawk small UAS; 246 Predators and MQ-1C Grey Eagles; 126 MQ-9 Reapers; 491 RQ-7 Shadows and 33 RQ-4 Global Hawk ...

  8. Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton - Wikipedia

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    Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk. The Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton is an American high-altitude long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed for and flown by the United States Navy and Royal Australian Air Force as a surveillance aircraft. Together with its associated ground control station, it is an unmanned aircraft system (UAS).

  9. List of active United States military aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Unmanned 2008 36 [citation needed] CQ-10 Snowgoose: MMIST Canada Propeller Transport Unmanned 2005 15 49 planned. Parafoil and autogyro variants. RQ-11 Raven: AeroVironment: USA Propeller Unmanned 2003 RQ-20 Puma: AeroVironment: USA Propeller Patrol Unmanned 2008 Black Hornet Nano: Prox Dynamics AS: USA Propeller Surveillance Unmanned Unmanned ...