The drone known as unmanned aerial vehicles and it means male bee in English. Drone can be controlled by Remote controller or ground stations. There are also types that fly according to a certain program and terminate the flight after completing the mission. The first drones were developed by A. M. Low in 1916.
In the following years, various unmanned aerial vehicles were produced and used in the First and Second World Wars. There were researchers who worked on different projects or designs to improve this thing in before the 2000’s. But after 2000’s, there was an explosion of interest in unmanned aerial vehicles.
It can be said that this is mainly cause is the increasing of civilian users. In the today world, drones are used in many field. The most popular area is the use of drone for discovery flights, or military grounds for destruction against terrorist groups.
The widespread use of technologies has brought an opportunity because of there is income the ability to overcome some expensive or problematic work. However, there are many benefits of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Benefits of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Unmanned airplanes can be controlled through autonomous or ground stations. Manned system require the necessary vital systems in the flight process such as the weight of the cockpit and the weight of the crew. These things cause the limitations of maneuvering and operational capability. So, this unmanned aerial vehicles are more popular than manned ones.
More importantly, the casualties of unmanned aerial vehicles are only cost. The most costly part are pilots to train in the military units of countries all over the world. It is very costly to train a pilot. For this reason, the loss of trained pilots is a huge disadvantage both for material and effort for the army.
Unmanned aerial vehicles attract armies in terms of low cost of casualties. Many times in history, enemy air defense elements played a big role in the use of the main offensive elements as bait to pass the fire line.
When approaching the 2020’s, too many unmanned aircraft types were designed. This situation brought the some different classifications. Generally:
- Vehicles which are called decoys help to set targets by using them as baits against fighter planes
- Vehicles collecting information of the enemy
- Vehicles used in high-risk tasks With attack capability
- Vehicles for cargo and logistic support
- Vehicles used for civil and commercial purposes.
Unmanned aerial vehicles are classified according to flight distance and altitude distance. Mostly, low altitude unmanned aerial vehicles are used. But for military purposes, UAV's are using in medium and high altitude.
