Drone most commonly refers to: *

Drone (bee) A drone is a male honey bee. Unlike the female worker bee, drones do not have stingers. They gather neither nectar nor pollen and are unable to feed without assistance from worker bees. A drone's only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptia ...

, a male bee, from an unfertilized egg *

Unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...

* Unmanned surface vehicle, watercraft * Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone Drone, drones or The Drones may also refer to:

Film and television

* Drones (2010 film), ''Drones'' (2010 film), an American office comedy * Drones (2013 film), ''Drones'' (2013 film), an American war thriller directed by Rick Rosenthal * Drone (2014 film), ''Drone'' (2014 film), a Norwegian documentary film * Drone (2017 film), ''Drone'' (2017 film), a Canadian thriller film * Drones (Beavis and Butt-Head), "Drones" (''Beavis and Butt-Head''), 2011 episode * Drone (Star Trek: Voyager), "Drone" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), 1998 episode * Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the Borg in Star Trek * Drones, service robots in ''Silent Running'' (1972)

Literature

* Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels * Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society The Culture of Iain M. Banks

Music

* Drone (music), a continuous note or chord

Genres

* Drone metal, a musical style * Drone music, a musical style

Instruments

* Drone (bagpipes) * Drone zither * Bladder fiddle or drone

Artists

* The Drones (Australian band) * The Drones (English band)

Albums

* The Drones (EP), ''The Drones'' (EP), a 2001 EP by the Australian band Drones * Drones (Muse album), ''Drones'' (Muse album) (2015) ** Drones World Tour * Drones (Robert Rich album), ''Drones'' (Robert Rich album) (1983)

Songs

* "Drone", 2018, by Alice in Chains from ''Rainier Fog'' * "Drone", 2015, by Chastity Belt from ''Time to Go Home'' * "Drones", 2004, by Fear Factory from ''Archetype'' * "Drones", 2015, by Oh Hiroshima from ''In Silence We Yearn'' * "Drones", 2006, by Rise Against from ''The Sufferer & the Witness''

Other uses

*Drone (wrestler), Mexican *Drone, Georgia, a place in the US * Drone, a fertile male ant * Drones or yanme'e, a fictional species in the Covenant (Halo), Covenant in ''Halo''