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Spc. Salvatore Zappala (left) and Spc. Travis Hayes, both unmanned aircraft systems operators with Company D, 588th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, assemble a Tactical Automatic Landing System in preparation for guiding an RQ-7B Shadow unmanned aircraft in for a landing on a hasty air strip built on a dirt road at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 16, 2017. Co. D’s UAS Platoon completed its first ever hasty landing, showing that the brigade’s air reconnaissance systems can move forward in a fight along with the rest of the brigade. The 3/4 ABCT trains daily under the U.S. Army Europe Atlantic Resolve mission to serve as a credible deterrent to aggression against NATO allies and partners in central and eastern Europe. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Scott Walters, 3rd ABCT Public Affairs, 4th Infantry Division)
The term drone has been used from the early days of aviation to name remotely-flown target aircraft used for practice firing a battleship's guns, such as the 1920s Fairey Queen and 1930s de Havilland Queen Bee. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is defined as a "powered, aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator, uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift, can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely. UAV is a term that is commonly applied to military use cases. Missiles with warheads are not considered UAVs because the vehicle itself is a munition. The term unmanned aircraft system (UAS) was adopted by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) An unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), also known as a combat drone is used for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance and carries aircraft ordnance such as missiles, machine guns, and bombs.