Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - UAVs in Popular Culture

UAVs in Popular Culture

UAVs have been used in many episodes of the science-fiction television series Stargate SG-1, and a sentient unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) was a central figure in the action film Stealth. UAVs are also used in computer and video games such as F.E.A.R., inFamous, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, and the popular Call of Duty and Battlefield franchises. A more futuristic and fictional example of a combat UAV is a Man-hack featured in the Half-Life game series. Also in the 2005 movie Syriana, UCAVs controlled by homeland based operators appear several times when striking against a motorcade somewhere in the Middle East. It was also used in the movies Eagle Eye and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.The drones were a central plot device in an episode of MTV's Beavis and Butt-head,where they are used by the two as they think it's a video game.

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