How to Use UAV in a Sentence

UAV

noun
  • The stakes are high for the UAV operators.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • When mounted under a UAV, the Milvus can spot and track targets day or night.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Think of a rolling wave of missile launches and UAV swarms from hidden sites, not a decisive battle.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Once acquired, the UAV rapidly speeds towards the target, crashing into it.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The purpose of this challenge is not just to develop a UAV that may have some AI in it to go out and do something.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Once entangled, the propellers lose mobility, causing the UAV to fall from the sky.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 6 May 2026
  • What is of interest is how good are your tracking algorithms for ensuring your UAV swarms work together.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Swarmer helps reduce the human workload required to run complex UAV operations.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Modris Kairiss, one of the country’s foremost military UAV specialists.
    — Alex Holmes, NBC news, 12 Nov. 2025
  • French unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) payload maker Merio has unveiled a laser designation system small and light enough to be mounted on drones.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • In Rubicon’s arsenal is the Molniya drone, a relatively simple UAV largely made of plywood.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The crew received additional live feeds from a smaller Providence drone operated by UAV Aerosystems.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • According to the firm, portable counter-UAV solutions, such as laser dazzlers, are seen as promising tools for protecting military forces and critical infrastructure.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The Ju Tian is a massive, long-range UAV carrier capable of deploying a swarm of up to hundred drones and a number of missiles dedicated to striking targets at land, air and sea.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Flight tests confirmed its performance, and its modular architecture allows it to be integrated into a range of UAV platforms, supporting broader use beyond the initial rollout.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Baykar has been developing the Bayraktar Kizilelma in Turkey as a fighter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to meet the defense department’s needs in the coming years.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The system has progressed through multiple stages of technical evaluation and validation, demonstrating its potential for operational use in counter-UAV missions.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Aerix’s approach directly addresses technical limitations observed in current counter-UAV strategies.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • By impairing onboard cameras and targeting optics, the platform offers a non-kinetic method of mitigating UAV threats without physically destroying the aircraft.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Drones, sometimes called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), are having a transformational moment.
    — Natan Linder, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Beskrestnov suggested this technology could be transferred to long-range weapons like Shahed, an Iranian combat UAV used by Russia extensively in Ukraine.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Expanding global competition China’s latest drone arrives as competition intensifies in the heavy cargo UAV segment.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Fox News Digital gained access to one of Israel’s most experienced and veteran UAV operators from Squadron 200.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • This mismatch has historically limited the viability of bamboo as a structural material in advanced UAV applications.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
  • That result highlights the platform’s strong compatibility with the technology and points to how easily the aerodynamic vectoring nozzle could be integrated into other high-speed UAV designs.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 8 Feb. 2026

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