UAS

UAS (plural UAS or UASs)

2. (aviation) Initialism of uncrewed aerial system or unmanned aerial system: an aircraft with no onboard pilot, and sometimes completely unpiloted, as well as the other components of the system, including automated guidance and telemetry, a remote operator if any, etc.

   Synonyms: drone (informal), UAV

   Coordinate terms: RPV, OPV, AUV, ROV

   • 2017, Harrison G. Wolf, Drones: Safety Risk Management for the Next Evolution of Flight, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Looking at the commercial entities looking to fly in the UAE, they are able to capture images and data via UAS/drone use, and have access to large areas through the approval process of the UAE.

   • 2019, James S. Aber, Irene Marzolff, Johannes Ries, Susan Elizabeth Ward Aber, Small-Format Aerial Photography and UAS Imagery: Principles, Techniques and Geoscience Applications, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 119:

     Their presence in the skies and news have become so evident that Time recently titled a Special Report issue devoted to UAS "The Drone Age" (Time 2018). UAS are free-flying, powered aircraft that may be flown remotely by a pilot on the ground or programmed to fly autonomously along specified routes to designated waypoints.

• A.U.'s, ASU, AUs, Asu, Aus, SAU, Sua, U. S. A., U.S.A., USA, a.u.s

• (acronym) IPA^(key): [ˈuʷas]
• (initialism, rare) IPA^(key): [uˈaɛs]

UAS (plural UAS-UAS)

1. (education) initialism of ulangan akhir semester
2. (education) initialism of ujian akhir semester (“semester final examination”)