The word "drone" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use "drone" to refer to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is typically controlled by a remote operator or by on-board computers. For example: "The military used drones to capture aerial footage of the enemy camp."
In a broad-brush speech, which frequently touched on the topic of freedom and Berliners' resilience, he could not fail to mention the concern felt across Europe about more modern-day encroachments on individual liberty, the recent revelations of internet surveillance and US drone warfare – issues which dominated his 25-hour visit to the German capital.
As that drone floated surreally over the Belgrade pitch on 14 October, sparking the extraordinary mayhem that followed on the pitch, it was just the latest incident to make that stance look naive at best and dangerous at worst.
A US drone strike has killed at least six suspected al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen today, officials said.
Props abounded, with a model drone hoisted by one member of the crowd and a large parachute carried by others.
Authentic Devonian is nothing like the conventional Mummerset drone favoured by stand-up comics and the Wurzels.
In reply to a message sent in September 2011 by adviser Huma Abedin to Clinton's personal email account, which contained an AP story about a drone strike in Pakistan, Clinton mistakenly replied with questions that appear to be about decorations.
The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2013 by AP, which sought Clinton's correspondence with senior advisers over a four-year period relating to drone strikes overseas and US surveillance programs.
Skydiving commandos, a homemade killer drone and even a pair of animatronic dinosaurs were all deployed by Pakistan's army on Monday in an attempt to deliver a much-needed shot of self-confidence to the terrorism-ravaged country.
The alleged terrorist's sister was the wife of Anwar al-Awlaki, the US-born radical militant cleric killed by a US drone strike last fall.
From this reference, we can deduce that the OLC authored a separate drone memo assessing – and dispensing with – the proposition that an American citizen had the right not to be deprived of his life without some form of judicial process.
The redactions in the drone memo's footnotes are perhaps the most disturbing, because they suggest the existence of an entire body of secret law, a veritable library of authoritative legal opinions produced by Justice Department lawyers but withheld from the American public.
