drone

An reusable unmanned aerial vehicle that is controlled by remote orders issued by a pilot or pre-specified programming. It can be equipped with a combustion engine, a jet engine or an electric motor, and comes with different levels of autonomy, shapes, sizes, configurations and characteristics.

While initially they were used for military purposes, nowadays they also have civil and commercial uses, such as fighting forest fires, in archeological research, to study highly toxic chemical and radiological sites, in freight transport, etc.

Drone usage legislation drones varies from one country to another.