{"id":76575,"date":"2024-07-01T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/what-to-know-of-the-us-militarys-5-drone-categories\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T03:00:12","slug":"what-to-know-of-the-us-militarys-5-drone-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=76575","title":{"rendered":"What To Know Of The US Militarys 5 Drone Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The words &#8220;unmanned aerial system,&#8221; &#8220;drone,&#8221; and &#8220;UAV&#8221; are applied to a mindboggling <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-radically-different-types-military-drones\/\">large number of autonomous military systems<\/a>, from hobbyist FPV drones to the mighty MQ-9 Predator drones. Drones are changing the face of war but in very different ways. While small FPV and other <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/20000-drone-pilots-counting-tale-of-the-drone-war\/\">small drones are changing the battlefield today in Ukraine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/general-atomics-xq-67-drone-us-air-force-collaborative-combat-aircraft\/\">the United States is looking to advanced loyal wingman drones<\/a> and aerial refueling drones to fight the war of the future.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military categorizes UAS (aka drones) into five different groups based on size and capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,8020,4160,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-department-of-defense","category-drones","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76576,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76575\/revisions\/76576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}