Talk:Unmanned Aircraft System

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Unmanned Aircraft System should not be redirected to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. There is a spreading misuse of the term Unmanned Aircraft System and it needs to be corrected. Many media outlets are using the term Unmanned Aerial System which is a combination of the two. The prime reference is the DoD UAS Roadmap 2005-2030. If a correction is required, it would be to move the definitions and links from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Unmanned Aircraft System and redirect UAV to UAS. --usmcuav 17:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

"Cruise missile weapons are occasionally confused with UA weapon systems because they are both unmanned. The key discriminators are (1) UA are equipped and intended for recovery at the end of their flight, and cruise missiles are not, and (2) munitions carried by UA are not tailored and integrated into their airframe whereas the cruise missile’s warhead is. This distinction is clearly made in the Joint Publication 1-02 DoD Dictionary’s definition for “UAV” (or UA)." This is an excerpt from the DoD UAS Roadmap 2005-2030.