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Almost all UAVs are military aircraft. Most of them are used for reconnaissance (exploration to gather information), although a few UAVs are armed with missiles. UAVs are employed when a piloted reconnaissance aircraft would run a high risk of being attacked or for very long missions that would exceed a pilot’s physical endurance. Often, a UAV is smaller and cheaper than a piloted aircraft designed to do the same job. In the near future, UAVs are expected to be used for civilian missions as well. The United States Coast Guard planned to use UAVs for search, rescue, and patrol operations. UAVs could also be used for aerial surveys and to inspect pipelines and power lines—jobs done today by piloted airplanes.

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1. The US Coast Guard is really not the best example of civilian use. The reason is the USCG isn't a civilian agency. It is a branch of the military and the only one that exists outside of the DoD. The USCG is the only military branch that has one of it's stated missions Federal law enforcement, amongst others such as Defense Ops, SAR etc. But it also operates in Iraq and it has been in every major war the US has been in from its founding in 1790. The Coast Guard as part if the Deepwater aquisition process, evaluated the military Bell Eagle eye as a UAV platform. The USCG decided to cancel the program. The US Navy and Marine Corps also evaluated the research and prototyping the USCG did with the program. The design was a tiltrotor so the aircraft could be used off of our larger Destroyer like Cutters such as the National Security Cutter and our WHEC 378 foot cutters. On a seperate thread, the Customs and Border Protection, uses a civilian derivative of the Predator the USAF use. This is useful in things like disaster response, drug operations and migrant interdiction. I hope this helps you.