Drone or The Drones may refer to:

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Vehicle

  • Drone, a type of uncrewed vehicle, a class of robot
  • Unmanned aerial vehicle or aerial drone
  • Unmanned combat aerial vehicle
  • Suicide drone (disambiguation)
  • Drone racing
  • Drones in wildfire management
  • Unmanned ground vehicle or ground drone
  • Unmanned surface vehicle or drone boats, drone ships, drones, vessel, surface drone, robot ship, robot boat
  • Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone, drone sub, robot sub
  • Remotely operated underwater vehicle

Any of the above types may be used in Drone warfare.

Biology

  • Drone (bee), a male bee
  • Drone, fertile male ant

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • Drones (2010 film), an American office comedy
  • Drones (2013 film), an American war thriller directed by Rick Rosenthal
  • Drone (2014 film), a Norwegian documentary film
  • Drone (2017 film), a Canadian thriller film

Television

  • "Drones" (Beavis and Butt-Head), 2011 episode
  • "Drone" (Star Trek: Voyager), 1998 episode

Music

  • Drone (sound), a continuous note or chord
  • Drones World Tour, 2015, by Muse; supporting the eponymous 2015 album
  • Drone metal, a musical style
  • Drone music, a musical style

Instruments

  • Drone (bagpipes)
  • Shruti box or drone box, originating from the Indian subcontinent
  • Drone zither
  • Bladder fiddle or drone

Artists

  • The Drones (Australian band)
  • The Drones (English band)

Albums

  • The Drones (EP), a 2001 EP by the Australian band Drones
  • Drones (Muse album) (2015)
  • Drones (Robert Rich album) (1983)

Songs

  • "Drone", 2018, by Alice in Chains from Rainier Fog
  • "Drone", 2015, by Chastity Belt from Time to Go Home
  • "Drones", 2004, by Fear Factory from Archetype
  • "Drones", 2020, by Grandson from I Love You, I'm Trying
  • "Drones", 2015, by Muse, the title track from the eponymous album Drones
  • "Drones", 2015, by Oh Hiroshima from In Silence We Yearn
  • "Drones", 2006, by Rise Against from The Sufferer & the Witness
  • Drone Warfare (song)

Fictional characters

  • Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels
  • Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society The Culture of Iain M. Banks
  • Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the Borg in Star Trek
  • Drones, service robots in Silent Running (1972)
  • Drones or yanme'e, fictional species in the Covenant in Halo

People

  • Drone (wrestler) (Hombre Bala Jr., born 1991), ringname of a Mexican professional luchador
  • Kyron Drones (born 2003), American football player
  • Luke Drone (born 1984), U.S. American football player

Places

  • Drone, Georgia, an unincorporated community in the US
  • Dronne, also spelled Drône, a river in south-western France
  • Pointe de Drône, a mountain in the Pennine Alps, Italy-Switzerland
  • River Drone, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Other uses

  • Video game bot

See also

  • Didgeridoo, sometimes called a dronepipe
  • Droners
  • Droned (disambiguation)
  • Dronne (disambiguation)
  • Robot (disambiguation)