UAV

Definitions

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.

abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level