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Drone or UAV is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard that can fly autonomously or be remotely controlled. Drones are used for military surveillance providing 24/7 footage from the sky and precision strikes. They are also used for non-military purposes like search and rescue, traffic monitoring, agriculture, and aerial photography. Drones have components like wings, propulsion systems, payload, flight control systems, navigation equipment and ground control systems.

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Drone

Drone or UAV is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard that can fly autonomously or be remotely controlled. Drones are used for military surveillance providing 24/7 footage from the sky and precision strikes. They are also used for non-military purposes like search and rescue, traffic monitoring, agriculture, and aerial photography. Drones have components like wings, propulsion systems, payload, flight control systems, navigation equipment and ground control systems.

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DRONE

PRESENTED BY: SYAZWANI HUSNA BT MOHD HIJAZI(2015165811)

DEFINITION

Drone or known as UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) or as a


unmanned aircraft system(UAS), which an aircraft without a
human pilot aboard.

The aircraft may be remotely controlled or can fly autonomously


through software-controlled flight plans in their embedded
systems working in conjunction with GPS.

UAVs have most often been associated with the military but they
are also used for search and rescue, surveillance, traffic
monitoring, weather monitoring and firefighting, among other
things.

FUNCTION OF DRONE
1.

Military

Drones are used in situations where manned flight is considered


too risky or difficult. They provide troops with a 24-hour "eye in the
sky", seven days a week. Each aircraft can stay aloft for up to 17
hours at a time, loitering over an area and sending back real-time
imagery of activities on the ground.
For example, The use of such unmanned aircraft in the Pakistan
as delivering precision strikes until killing hundreds of people in
Pakistan.

Another function :

Target and decoy providing ground and aerial gunnery a target that
simulates an enemy aircraft or missile

Reconnaissance providing battlefield intelligence

Logistics delivering cargo

Research and development improve UAV technologies

Civil and commercial UAVs agriculture, aerial photography, data


collection

DRONE Components

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