UAV

English

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

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Noun

UAV (plural UAVs)

2. (aviation) Initialism of unmanned aerial vehicle or uncrewed aerial vehicle: an aircraft with no onboard pilot, and sometimes completely unpiloted, that is capable of controlled, sustained, level flight.

   Synonyms: drone (informal), UAS

   Coordinate terms: RPV, OPV, AUV, ROV

   • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist‎, volume 405, number 8813, archived from the original on 11 March 2023, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

     Both groups have recently started testing their first prototypes. Matternet ran a series of successful field tests of its prototype UAVs in the Dominican Republic and Haiti in September, and met local groups to sell the idea.

   • 2023 June 3, Vasco Cotovio, Tim Lister, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Daria Tarasova, “Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secretive drone program”, in CNN‎:

     Ukrainian and foreign UAV makers rock up early at an open field in the outskirts of Kyiv, to take part in a drone competition organized by the Ministry of Digital Transformation.

Derived terms

• UCAV

Translations

unmanned aerial vehicle

Afrikaans: onbemande vliegtuig Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: طائرة دون طيار Armenian: ԱԹՍ (ATʻS), անօդաչու թռչող սարք (hy) (anōdačʻu tʻṙčʻoġ sarkʻ) Asturian: vehículu aereu non tripuláu m Azerbaijani: PUA, pilotsuz uçuş aparatı Bashkir: пилотһыҙ осоу аппараты (pilothıź osow apparatı) Belarusian: беспілотны лятальны апарат (be) m (bjespilótny ljatalʹny aparat) Bengali: মনুষ্যবিহীন আকাশযান (monuśśobihin akaśjan) Catalan: vehicle aeri no tripulat m Chinese: Mandarin: 無人航空載具 / 无人航空载具 (wúrén hángkōng zàijù), 無人機 / 无人机 (zh) (wúrénjī) Czech: bezpilotní letadlo n Dutch: onbemand luchtvaartuig n Esperanto: senpilota aviadilo Estonian: mehitamata õhusõiduk Finnish: miehittämätön ilma-alus French: véhicule aérien sans pilote à bord m Galician: vehículo aéreo non tripulado m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: unbemanntes Luftfahrzeug n, unbemanntes Fluggerät n, unbemanntes Kleinfluggerät n, Drohne (de) f (colloquial) Hebrew: כלי טיס בלתי מאויש (he) Hindi: मानव रहित विमान (mānav rahit vimān) Hungarian: pilóta nélküli repülőgép (hu) Icelandic: dróni m Ido: senpilotist aviacilo Indonesian: pesawat nirawak Irish: aerfheithicil gan foireann Italian: aeromobile a pilotaggio remoto m Japanese: 無人航空機 Kazakh: ұшқышсыз ұшу аппараты (ūşqyşsyz ūşu apparaty) Kyrgyz: учкучсуз учуучу аппарат (uckucsuz ucuucu apparat) Latvian: bezpilota lidaparāts m Limburgish: ónbemand lóchvoertuug Lithuanian: bepilotis orlaivis m Macedonian: беспилотно летало n (bespilotno letalo) Malay: pesawat udara tanpa pemandu Malayalam: അൺമാൻഡ് ഏരിയൽ വെഹിക്കിൾ (aṇmāṉḍŭ ēriyal vehikkiḷ) Maori: waka matatopa, matatopa Marathi: मानवरहित हवाई वाहने (mānvarhit havāī vāhne) Polish: bezzałogowy statek powietrzny m, dron (pl) m, bezzałogowiec m, bezpilotowiec m Portuguese: veículo aéreo não tripulado m Romanian: aeronavă fără pilot f Russian: БПЛА (ru) m (BPLA) Sinhalese: නියමුවන් රහිත ගුවන් යානය (niyamuwan rahita guwan yānaya) Slovak: bezpilotné lietadlo n Slovene: brezpilotno letalo n Spanish: vehículo aéreo no tripulado m Tajik: паҳпод (pahpod) Tamil: ஆளில்லாத வானூர்தி (āḷillāta vāṉūrti) Telugu: మానవరహిత వైమానిక వాహనం (mānavarahita vaimānika vāhanaṁ) Thai: โดรน (th) (droon) Tibetan: མི་མེད་འཕུར་གྲུ (mi med 'phur gru) Turkish: İHA (tr), insansız hava aracı Ukrainian: БЛА (uk) (BLA), безпілотний літальний апарат (bezpilotnyj litalʹnyj aparat) Uyghur: ئادەمسىز ئۇچقۇ (ademsiz uchqu) Uzbek: uchuvchisiz uchish apparati

See also

• UAP

Anagrams

• AUV, Uva, UV-A, UVA, vau, UV A, uva

Spanish

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UAV

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Etymology

Borrowed from English UAV.

Noun

UAV m (plural UAV)

1. UAV
   • 2024 October 16, Sebastian Shukla, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto, “EXCLUSIVO CNN | Dentro de una unidad secreta de drones ucranianos que apunta a territorio ruso”, in CNN en Español‎:

     Sus miembros se autodenominan Unidad de UAV de Largo Alcance. […] “Por supuesto, podemos enviar los UAV (vehículos aéreos no tripulados), y hemos destruido muchos lugares. Pero no es suficiente”, afirma Vector.

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