Drone technology is advancing rapidly. Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have evolved from early target practice drones in the early 1900s. There are two main types - military drones like the MQ-9 Reaper used for surveillance and attacks, and commercial/recreational drones like the DJI Phantom for photography. Drones operate through a ground control system where officers can monitor and control a drone's flight path and weapons payload if applicable. New innovations continue to push the boundaries with experimental drones that can both fly and function as submarines.

1. Drone Technology
(UAV)
Changing world into cyber mechatronics

2. What is Drone???
• An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),
commonly known as a drone and also
referred to as an unpiloted aerial vehicle
and a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA)
• Drone is an aircraft without a human
pilot aboard and knows as most
advanced equipment in the field of
robotics, aeronautics and electronics.

3. History
• In the mid-1800s Austria sent unmanned,
bomb-filled balloons to attack Venice.
• The drone seen today started innovation in
the early 1900s and was originally used for
target practice to train military personnel. It
continued to be developed during World War
I.
• The earliest attempt at a powered unmanned
aerial vehicle was A. M. Low's "Aerial Target"
of 1916.

4. History
The Israeli
Tadiran Mastiff,
which first flew
in 1973, is seen
as the first
modern
battlefield UAV,
due to its data-
link system and
live video
streaming.

5. Types
• Drones come in wide varieties of sizes, shapes
and functions.
• Drones are of two types:
• 1)MQ-9 Reaper, a hunter-killer surveillance
UAV. (Also knows as killing machine) and they
are usually deployed for military and special
operation applications.
• DJI Phantom UAV for commercial and
recreational aerial photography.(Also for
educational and research purposes)

6. Types
MQ-9 Reaper DJI Phantom

7. Different parts of the MQ-9 Bomber

8. Inside an Phantom ||

9. Model of an insect size drone(surveillance)

10. US Navy’s flying
submarine drone
The Naval Research
Laboratory has been
working on just such a
drone in an attempt to
offer the capability to spy
on enemy submarines.
The US Navy has been
experimenting, though,
and we could soon see a
flying drone that also
doubles as a submarine.

11. How drone operates
The launching of a
target drone, used as
a weapon carrier to
attack on a required
target is controlled of
in commanding
centre. It is monitored
by commanding
officers called Combat
System Officers in the
operating room.

12. How drones(MQ-9) operates(Eyes in the skies)

13. Compiled and prepared by:
Muhammad Arsalan
ID: GCPK18029
Grafton College Islamabad
arsalankhan.gandapur@yahoo.com