# Drone

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**Drone** or **The Drones** may refer to:

## Science and technology

### Vehicle

- Drone, a type of [uncrewed vehicle](/source/Uncrewed_vehicle), a class of robot - [Unmanned aerial vehicle](/source/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle) or aerial drone - [Unmanned combat aerial vehicle](/source/Unmanned_combat_aerial_vehicle) - [Suicide drone (disambiguation)](/source/Suicide_drone_(disambiguation)) - [Drone racing](/source/Drone_racing) - [Drones in wildfire management](/source/Drones_in_wildfire_management) - [Unmanned ground vehicle](/source/Unmanned_ground_vehicle) or ground drone - [Unmanned surface vehicle](/source/Unmanned_surface_vehicle) or drone boats, drone ships, drones, vessel, surface drone, robot ship, robot boat - [Unmanned underwater vehicle](/source/Unmanned_underwater_vehicle) or underwater drone, drone sub, robot sub - [Remotely operated underwater vehicle](/source/Remotely_operated_underwater_vehicle)

Any of the above types may be used in [Drone warfare](/source/Drone_warfare).

### Biology

- [Drone (bee)](/source/Drone_(bee)), a male bee
- Drone, fertile male [ant](/source/Ant)

## Arts and entertainment

### Film

- [*Drones* (2010 film)](/source/Drones_(2010_film)), an American office comedy
- [*Drones* (2013 film)](/source/Drones_(2013_film)), an American war thriller directed by Rick Rosenthal
- [*Drone* (2014 film)](/source/Drone_(2014_film)), a Norwegian documentary film
- [*Drone* (2017 film)](/source/Drone_(2017_film)), a Canadian thriller film

### Television

- ["Drones" (*Beavis and Butt-Head*)](/source/Drones_(Beavis_and_Butt-Head)), 2011 episode
- ["Drone" (*Star Trek: Voyager*)](/source/Drone_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)), 1998 episode

### Music

- [Drone (sound)](/source/Drone_(sound)), a continuous note or chord
- [Drones World Tour](/source/Drones_World_Tour), 2015, by Muse; supporting the eponymous 2015 album
- [Drone metal](/source/Drone_metal), a musical style
- [Drone music](/source/Drone_music), a musical style

#### Instruments

- [Drone (bagpipes)](/source/Drone_(bagpipes))
- [Shruti box](/source/Shruti_box) or drone box, originating from the Indian subcontinent
- [Drone zither](/source/Drone_zither)
- [Bladder fiddle](/source/Bladder_fiddle) or drone

#### Artists

- [The Drones (Australian band)](/source/The_Drones_(Australian_band))
- [The Drones (English band)](/source/The_Drones_(English_band))

#### Albums

- [*The Drones* (EP)](/source/The_Drones_(EP)), a 2001 EP by the Australian band Drones
- [*Drones* (Muse album)](/source/Drones_(Muse_album)) (2015)
- [*Drones* (Robert Rich album)](/source/Drones_(Robert_Rich_album)) (1983)

#### Songs

- "Drone", 2018, by Alice in Chains from *[Rainier Fog](/source/Rainier_Fog)*
- "Drone", 2015, by Chastity Belt from *[Time to Go Home](/source/Time_to_Go_Home)*
- "Drones", 2004, by Fear Factory from *[Archetype](/source/Archetype_(Fear_Factory_album))*
- "Drones", 2020, by Grandson from *[I Love You, I'm Trying](/source/I_Love_You,_I'm_Trying)*
- "Drones", 2015, by Muse, the title track from the eponymous album [*Drones*](/source/Drones_(Muse_album))
- "Drones", 2015, by Oh Hiroshima from *[In Silence We Yearn](/source/In_Silence_We_Yearn)*
- "Drones", 2006, by Rise Against from *[The Sufferer & the Witness](/source/The_Sufferer_%26_the_Witness)*
- [Drone Warfare (song)](/source/Drone_Warfare_(song))

### Fictional characters

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

## People

- [Drone (wrestler)](/source/Drone_(wrestler)) (Hombre Bala Jr., born 1991), ringname of a Mexican professional luchador
- [Kyron Drones](/source/Kyron_Drones) (born 2003), American football player
- [Luke Drone](/source/Luke_Drone) (born 1984), U.S. American football player

## Places

- [Drone, Georgia](/source/Drone,_Georgia), an unincorporated community in the US
- [Dronne](/source/Dronne), also spelled Drône, a river in south-western France
- [Pointe de Drône](/source/Pointe_de_Dr%C3%B4ne), a mountain in the Pennine Alps, Italy-Switzerland
- [River Drone](/source/River_Drone), Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK

## Other uses

- [Video game bot](/source/Video_game_bot)

## See also

- [Didgeridoo](/source/Didgeridoo), sometimes called a dronepipe
- *[Droners](/source/Droners)*
- [Droned (disambiguation)](/source/Droned_(disambiguation))
- [Dronne (disambiguation)](/source/Dronne_(disambiguation))
- [Robot (disambiguation)](/source/Robot_(disambiguation))

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