"drones" is a correct and usable word in written English.
Generally, it refers to unmanned aerial vehicles, or aircrafts operated by remote control or by onboard computers, typically for surveillance or military uses. For example: "Drones have been gaining increasing use in the military for surveillance and reconnaissance missions."
The prosaic business of lending to business and serving customers delivered lower profits and was done by the banks' drones.
Electronic warfare, cyber attacks, small groups of commandos and special forces will take the place of traditional army units, just as pilotless drones will take the place of conventional aircraft.
The US technology companies have similar interests in drones, with Facebook's internet.org initiative working to connect the next billion people to the internet through free or subsidised mobile broadband.
The drones will be used as atmospheric satellites, part of Google's plan to provide internet access to areas without ground-based access and the four billion people currently without access, its senior vice president of product, Sundar Pichai, revealed during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
He is likely to test the Algerian government's willingness to countenance greater intelligence sharing, including the deployment of US drones.
Two years after rising to national prominence with a 13-hour talking filibuster against drones, Rand Paul has made another marathon speech on the floor of the US Senate – only this time in a bid to halt the federal government's mass surveillance of Americans' phone records and to derail an extension of the Patriot Act.
And the music sounds like heroin, with its drones and impatient feedback and stuttering words.
In all, 35 countries now have drones and 429 were sold in the past five years, compared with 322 sold between 2005 and 2009.
Now the United States is gaining ground by sending military advisors and more drones, sorry, I mean security personnel and assets, to Nigeria to assist the Nigerian military, who by the way, have a history of committing mass atrocities against the Nigerian people.
"I'm now using drones and underwater housing [for cameras] and camera traps.
American warplanes and drones carried out more than 20 strikes at the weekend near the crucial dam that Isis forces took earlier this month.
