Talk:Unmanned aerial vehicle

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Contents 1 Second and Third 2 Phoenix UAV 3 Commercial military UAVs 4 Needs editing 5 Pages needing attention 6 Rewriting and merging 7 UAV definition and distinction 8 Disambig 9 TOC location consensus needed 10 Included hurricane tag

[edit] Second and Third

The Second and Third Gulf Wars involved US/Coalition vs Middle East forces. Don't forget the First, involving no US forces (which is why most not clued-in Westerners ignore it in counting), but several Middle East countries, I don't remember the specifics at this point, this needs fixing.

[edit] Phoenix UAV

66.167.136.12 05:49, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC):There's no article on the Phoenix UAV used by the British Army (see Operation Telic order of battle)...

Removed mention of the Israeli air force using the term UAV since english is not the official language of Israel thus the mention of the usage of the translated term is irrelevant

[edit] Commercial military UAVs

Where in the article should I place information about such UAVs? Under the country of origin? Specifically I wanted to talk about the Snark, built by New Zealand-based commercial helicopter manufacturer TGR Helicorp[1]. Jacoplane 11:38, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Needs editing

Typo here: "More sophisticated verions may h..." ('versions')

Also needs links to waypoint navigation etc.

Will try to edit this once I get some time, but if anybody else wants to jump in, then go for it.

[edit] Pages needing attention

Can someone who knows about this stuff please take a look at Top I Vision casper 250 and Casper mini uav, which appear to be about the same thing, but need some pretty heavy editing. Many thanks, ::Supergolden:: 09:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. New article is now Casper 250. Akradecki 20:46, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewriting and merging

I posted this over on the talk page for History of unmanned aerial vehicles. There is a lot of duplication of articles on the subject of UAVs, with History of unmanned aerial vehicles being the most superfluous. I am proposing to integrate most of the data on that page into the appropriate already-existing pages. It makes sense that Unmanned aerial Vehicle be the main general page on the subject, so some of the material will be integrated here. What will be left over there is a general history page, essentially an expansion of the History section on this page. Comments on the project are welcomed. Akradecki 18:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UAV definition and distinction

Some of the lines between a UAV and a missle can get blurred, especially when talking about vehicles like the ADM-20. I'd like to propose including a definition like this in the article: "For the purposes of this article, and to distinguish UAVs from missles, a UAV is defined as being capable of controlled, sustained level flight and powered by a jet or reciprocating engine." This will, of course mean that cruise missles are included as UAVs, but things like Sidewinders are not. Comments? Akradecki 14:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

No objections having been raised, definition has been added here and on the history page. Akradecki 19:15, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambig

I see no real reason we need to have a disambig statment at the top that's a red link, and another that is a fictitous land vehicle. If there's no objections, I'll delete in a day or two. Akradecki 15:03, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

That's cool with me; I only added it because I couldn't stand having UAV be a disambiguation page showing a red link, a fictitous land vehicle, and the vastly-more-common meaning. ➥the Epopt 15:47, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

BTW...I totally agree with what you did. I always found that disambig page an annoyance. Akradecki 15:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TOC location consensus needed

I'm seeking input for the folks who frequent this page so a consensus can be reached regarding layout. Because of the large white space created, I floated the TOC to the right (see this diff [2] for sample). However, User:Netoholic says that it is improper to do this. However, Help:Section#Floating the TOC says "A floating TOC should be used when it is beneficial to the layout of the article, or when the default TOC gets in the way of other elements." Seems to me that, in this case, it is indeed beneficial to the layout, and having the large white space gets in the way of the article. To me, the article looks better with the TOC on the right. How does everyone else feel? Akradecki 04:39, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Eliminate the concern by moving the extraordinarily long list of vehicles to its own page (List of unmanned aerial vehicles). -- Netoholic @ 05:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree, moving that information to a list is the easiest way to shorten the number of headings. This article would be pretty lean on information in that case, so perhaps the history page could be merged here. Salad Days

Agreed as well. Take the entire list to a new page, and replace the existing catagories with "main article at..." and maybe a little bit of summary text of the whole thing. --KPWM_Spotter 22:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Sounds like a plan. I've done the first step, moving the list to the List. Eventually, I'll move the history section over to here like has been suggested, but there's still a lot of work to pare down first (see the To Do list on that article's talk page; all the subpages need to be merged into their relevant model articles...please be patient.) Akradecki 03:40, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Both pages look great! Salad Days 03:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Included hurricane tag

...because there have been recent flights of UAVs into tropical cyclones. Thegreatdr 15:33, 9 December 2006 (UTC)