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Also Known As uncrewed aerial vehicle • RPV • unmanned aircraft system • UAS • remotely piloted vehicle • drone • UAV

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General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle, landing at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, 2008.
Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout, a hovering unmanned aerial vehicle, approaching a U.S. Navy amphibious transport dock ship, 2006.
Ryan AQM-34 Firebee, a remotely piloted vehicle used for combat reconnaissance in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War; at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.
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