Examples
“The Predator UAV is scary technology with a tweenager at the controls … I think Asimov did more for human contemplation of robotic sentience (and its pitfalls) than any scientist.”
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“[A UAV is sent through the gate to recon over Tollan.]”
“The first of those, flying the UAV, is available widely; primitive weapons are available widely as well, and so is the fundamental computational power.”
“Several prior commenters have already pointed out that a sand-bunny with a UAV is still a sand-bunny.”
“Posted in UAV and Chinook helicopters, afghanistan, department of defense, manley report.”
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“The Watchkeeper, based on the Elbit Hermes 450 UAV, is expected to begin operating in 2010.”
“But the fancy-pants term UAV is well earned these days because of the amazing things amateur enthusiasts can do with them.”
“The Cormorant UAV is envisioned to provide close air support for vessels such as the Littoral Combat ship (LCS) and SSGN.”
“A long term UAV solution, in the form of the Joint UAV Surveillance Target Acquisition System JUSTAS Program, is currently being developed that will include domestic and deployed operational UAV capabilities.”
“Israeli sources claim that Hizbollah's UAV is an Iranian-made aircraft, one of eight such planes given to the terrorist group by Iran; Hizbollah, on the other hand, claims it developed the UAV entirely on its own.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘UAV’.
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
aeroallergen, aerial, aerial mapping, aerial root, aerobe, aerobiology, aerobioscope, aelophilous, anemotropism, anemoclastic, anafront, antitrades and 273 more...
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Newsweek
All the words that are fit to be made up. Or, you know, to get into a weekly newsmagazine. I've been meaning to make this list for a long time.
brohawk, blasian, ghitalian, mcmansion, mcstrip mall, cornet wales, i could tell you ..., mackerel-snapper, tous les beaux es..., in the tank, longheadedness, kusa and 101 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Also remotely piloted vehicle, or RPV. May 1, 2010
reesetee Uav. That's not exactly "uav," is it? Mar 17, 2010
chained_bear Unmanned aerial vehicle(s). Usage:
"At least 40 other countries--from Belarus and Georgia to India, Pakistan and Russia--have begun to build, buy, and deploy unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, showcasing their efforts at international weapons expos.... In the last six months alone, Iran has begun production on a pair of weapons-ready surveillance drones, while China has debuted the Pterodactyl and Sour Dragon, rivals to America's Predator and Global Hawk."
—P.W. Singer, "Defending Against Drones," Newsweek, March 8, 2010, p. 38 Mar 12, 2010