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Prime Air MK30
MK30 is Amazon Prime Air's electric delivery drone, designed to transition between vertical takeoff and wing-borne forward flight for small-package delivery.
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Skeldar V-200
Skeldar V-200 is a medium-range remotely piloted helicopter for land and maritime sensing, controlled through high-level autonomous commands from a remote pilot station.
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Wing Delivery Aircraft
Wing's delivery aircraft is an electric autonomous drone that cruises on a fixed wing, hovers for pickup and lowers packages on a tether.
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Bayraktar TB2
Bayraktar TB2 is a remotely piloted fixed-wing aircraft used for persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and other defense missions.
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Falco Xplorer
Falco Xplorer is a remotely piloted fixed-wing aircraft developed for persistent strategic surveillance with automatic takeoff and landing and an open payload…
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Ghost
Ghost is Anduril's expeditionary uncrewed aircraft family for reconnaissance and situational-awareness missions.
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V-BAT
V-BAT is a ducted-fan vertical-takeoff aircraft used for ship- and land-based reconnaissance missions.
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Zipline Platform 2
Platform 2 is Zipline's autonomous delivery system combining a delivery aircraft, a tethered delivery device and supporting infrastructure.
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DJI Matrice 400
Matrice 400 is a configurable enterprise multirotor for inspection, mapping and public-safety workflows. Values are DJI specifications under stated test conditions.
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Puma AE
Puma AE is a hand-launched small uncrewed aircraft family for land and maritime observation missions.
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Glossary
Vertical Takeoff and Landing
The capability to take off and land vertically, used by multirotors, helicopters and some fixed-wing-transition aircraft.
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FAA Remote Identification of Drones
Remote ID rules require many registered drones operating in U.S. airspace to provide identification and location information through an approved method. Exceptions and…
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Bayraktar AKINCI
AKINCI is a twin-engine high-altitude uncrewed combat aircraft designed for long-endurance surveillance, command support and multi-payload defense missions.
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Bayraktar KIZILELMA
KIZILELMA is a jet-powered uncrewed combat aircraft under flight development for collaborative air operations and operation from short runways.
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Bayraktar TB3
Bayraktar TB3 is a folding-wing uncrewed combat aircraft developed for short-runway takeoff and landing, including operations from ships with compact flight decks.
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CAMCOPTER S-100
CAMCOPTER S-100 is an uncrewed helicopter system for land- and ship-based missions that carries interchangeable sensing payloads without requiring a prepared runway.
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Gray Eagle 25M
Gray Eagle 25M is a modernized long-endurance uncrewed aircraft for reconnaissance, surveillance and target-acquisition missions, built around modular open-system…
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Matternet M2
Matternet M2 is an autonomous delivery aircraft used within the company's medical-logistics system for time-sensitive payloads.
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Mojave
Mojave is an expeditionary short-takeoff-and-landing uncrewed aircraft demonstrator derived from the Predator family for operations from austere fields and compact…
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MQ-25A Stingray
MQ-25A Stingray is an uncrewed carrier aircraft being produced to provide autonomous aerial refueling and extend the operating reach of U.S. Navy carrier air wings.
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MQ-28 Ghost Bat
MQ-28 Ghost Bat is an Australian-developed uncrewed collaborative aircraft designed to team with crewed aircraft through an open architecture and interchangeable mission…
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MQ-4C Triton
MQ-4C Triton is a high-altitude long-endurance uncrewed aircraft designed to provide persistent maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance over large ocean…
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Predator C Avenger
Predator C Avenger is a jet-powered remotely piloted aircraft designed to combine higher transit speed with long-endurance surveillance and multi-mission payload…
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Raven B
Raven B is a lightweight, hand-launched small uncrewed aircraft system intended to give small units portable daytime and infrared reconnaissance.
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Switchblade 600
Switchblade 600 is a portable extended-range loitering munition that combines onboard sensing, operator supervision and a recoverable-abort function in a single uncrewed…
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14 CFR Part 107 — Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Part 107 is the principal U.S. operating framework for many non-recreational civil small-drone operations. This Robot Observatory summary is not legal advice; operators…
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MQ-9A Reaper
MQ-9A is a remotely piloted, long-endurance aircraft used for ISR and strike missions. Operational details vary by operator and configuration.
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AeroVironment
AeroVironment develops small uncrewed aircraft and other defense systems.
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
GA-ASI develops remotely piloted aircraft and related mission systems.
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Shield AI
Shield AI develops autonomy software and uncrewed aircraft, including V-BAT.
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Skydio X10
X10 is an autonomous enterprise quadcopter for inspection, public safety and related operations.
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Skydio
Skydio develops autonomous drones and docked operations software for enterprise, public-safety and defense users.
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Drone
An informal term for an uncrewed or remotely operated vehicle; in aviation it commonly refers to an unmanned aircraft and its supporting system.
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DJI
DJI develops consumer, enterprise and agricultural uncrewed aircraft and imaging systems.
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NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin
Jetson AGX Orin is an embedded computing module and developer platform for edge AI and autonomous-machine workloads.
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