How to Use UAV in a Sentence
UAV
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Once entangled, the propellers lose mobility, causing the UAV to fall from the sky.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 6 May 2026
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This flexibility could help the smaller UAV work against advanced air-defense systems.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026
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There are very few weapons in the modern day and age that have become as popular as the Shahed-136 one-way attack UAV.
—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026
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They may be launched once radars, electro-optical sensors, or other systems detect an incoming UAV.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026
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This approach reduces the computing workload and allows the UAV to quickly react to obstacles while maintaining a smooth and efficient flight path.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
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The long-term objective is to bring the technology closer to operational UAV applications.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
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The first phase is a property-wide UAV magnetic survey, designed to generate the first modern high-resolution geophysical dataset for the site.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 28 June 2026
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Aircraft designers could gain more freedom when arranging electrical systems inside compact UAV structures.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
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Non-state actors and drone warfare The diffusion of UAV technology has enabled non-state actors to participate in air warfare in unprecedented ways.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
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This directly aims to address the scaling bottlenecks that frequently disrupt the transition from UAV prototyping to thousands of operational units.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
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Sensors mounted on the vessel, including radar and electro-optical tracking systems, monitor the UAV’s position relative to the landing platform.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
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This applies not just to basic UAV technology but to all the related tech, the automation via AI, the drone jamming and counter jamming, aerial surveillance, the naval and robotic ground-drone tech and the like.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
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The video claims to show a FAB-500 aerial glide bomb destroying a UAV command post near Novopavlovka and a temporary deployment area in the Kherson region.
—Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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The campaign evaluated the system on two different drone platforms, demonstrating compatibility across multiple UAV configurations.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
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The law, passed by Russia's lower house of parliament on Tuesday, will allow staff at Russia's central bank to be armed and to operate the systems used to down unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) attacks without the involvement of special forces.
—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 27 May 2026
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Russia, Israel, Ukraine, and Turkey have also developed robust UAV manufacturing capabilities.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
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Ukraine has also conducted long-range covert drone strikes launched from within Russian territory, including attacks on strategic airbases using drones concealed in trucks or civilian infrastructure, demonstrating the increasing reach of low-cost UAV systems into deep strategic targets.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
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The team claims the approach significantly reduces computational overhead, enabling the UAV to quickly adapt to unknown obstacles while maintaining stable, efficient, and smooth flight trajectories without requiring external computing infrastructure.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
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Finally, early warning systems employing acoustic sensors, optical trackers, and passive radio frequency detection provide critical situational awareness, enabling timely engagement of incoming UAV threats.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
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No additional hardware or software needs to be installed on the UAV, allowing operators to preserve the drone’s battery efficiency, payload capability, and cybersecurity protections, reports TRR.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 May 2026
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One of the biggest hitters in the conventional arsenal merged with drone technology, as the US Army tested a bunker-buster warhead combined with an expendable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for field testing at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
—New Atlas, 4 May 2026
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As this is written, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (GUR) are designing joint operations and creating UAV doctrine on the fly.
—David A. Deptula, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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Drones in the Russia-Ukraine War The Russia-Ukraine conflict, initiated by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 (an extension of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea) has served as a crucible for innovations in UAV warfare.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
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