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DRDO AEW&CS

The DRDO AEW&CS, known in service as Netra, is India's indigenous airborne early warning and control system, built on Embraer EMB-145 jets for the Indian Air Force.

DRDO Close Quarter Battle carbine

The DRDO Close Quarter Battle (CQB) carbine is a 5.56×45 mm compact automatic carbine designed by India's DRDO and built by Bharat Forge for close combat and counter-terrorism.

DRDO Netra Mk2

The DRDO Netra Mk2, also written Netra Mk II, is an Indian airborne early warning and control aircraft built from six converted Airbus A321 airliners.

DRDO Rustom

Rustom is a DRDO family of Indian unmanned aerial vehicles named after Professor Rustom Damania, spanning the tactical Rustom-1 demonstrator and the MALE Rustom-2, renamed TAPAS-BH-201.

Dre Greenlaw

Dre Greenlaw, NFL linebacker (No. 57) for the San Francisco 49ers and briefly the Denver Broncos; Arkansas product drafted 148th overall in 2019; tore his Achilles running onto the field at Super Bowl LVIII and returned to San Francisco in 2026.

Dre Kirkpatrick

Dre Kirkpatrick (D'Andre Lawan Kirkpatrick), born 1989 in Gadsden, Alabama, is a former NFL cornerback drafted 17th overall in 2012 by the Bengals; 119 games, 13 interceptions, and the record 101-yard non-TD interception return.

Drea de Matteo

Drea de Matteo, American actress, played Adriana La Cerva on The Sopranos, winning the 2004 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress; later Gina on Joey, Wendy on Sons of Anarchy, and OnlyFans creator and Ultrafree podcast host.

Dread Pirate Roberts

Dread Pirate Roberts: fictional pirate identity in William Goldman's The Princess Bride (1973 novel, 1987 film), a name passed from captain to captain, held by Westley; later the Silk Road darknet administrator pseudonym of Ross Ulbricht.

Dreadlocks

Dreadlocks, also called locs or dreads, are hair left to mat into ropelike locks, associated with Rastafari and many other cultures; the term dates to 1955–60 and carries religious, cultural, and legal significance.

Dreadnought

A dreadnought is a battleship built on the pattern of HMS Dreadnought of 1906, armed entirely with large-caliber guns, making all earlier battleships, called pre-dreadnoughts, obsolete.

Dreadnought (guitar type)

Dreadnought guitar: large steel-string acoustic body created by C.F. Martin in 1916, named for HMS Dreadnought; 14-fret square-shoulder form from 1934; the most copied flat-top design, standard for bluegrass and flatpicking.

Dreadnought-class submarine

Dreadnought-class submarine: UK Royal Navy SSBN class, four boats (HMS Dreadnought, Valiant, Warspite, King George VI) built at Barrow to replace the Vanguard class, carrying 12 Trident II D5 tubes, PWR3 reactor, entering service early 2030s.

Dream

Dream: spontaneous experiences, mostly visual and emotional, occurring during sleep, most vividly in REM sleep. Key theories include Freud's 1900 psychoanalysis, Hobson and McCarley's 1977 activation-synthesis, and memory-consolidation accounts.

Dream (American group)

Dream was an American teen pop girl group formed in 1998, signed to Bad Boy Records; members Holly Blake-Arnstein, Diana Ortiz, Ashley Poole, and Melissa Schuman scored the 2000 No. 2 Hot 100 hit "He Loves U Not" and the platinum album It Was All a Dream. Not the Japanese pop group, the-Dream, or NCT Dream.

Dream (character)

Dream, also known as Dream of the Endless and Morpheus, is the personification of dreams in DC Comics, created by Neil Gaiman and first appearing in The Sandman in 1989.

Dream (group)

Dream (ドリーム) was a Japanese girl vocal group formed through the avex Dream 2000 audition, debuting in 2000, joining the E-girls collective in 2011, and ending activities in 2017.

Dream (Lisa song)

Dream (LISA song): English-language piano ballad by BLACKPINK's LISA, closing track 13 of her 2025 debut solo album Alter Ego (LLOUD/RCA); short-film video with Kentaro Sakaguchi directed by OJun Kwon.

Dream (YouTuber)

Dream (Clay, born 1999), also DreamWasTaken, is an American Minecraft YouTuber and streamer known for the Manhunt series, the Dream SMP server, a 2020 speedrun cheating controversy, and his 2022 face reveal.

Dream (비몽) (2008 film)

Dream (비몽, Bi-mong) is Kim Ki-duk's 2008 South Korean-Japan co-production drama-fantasy, his 15th film, starring Joe Odagiri and Lee Na-young as strangers linked by dreams acted out in sleepwalking; 95 minutes, 89,858 admissions, Best Director from Korean film critics.

Dream a Little Dream (film)

Dream a Little Dream (film) is a 1989 American fantasy comedy directed by Marc Rocco. It features Jason Robards and Corey Feldman when a dream experiment swaps their consciousness.

Dream a Little Dream of Me

Dream a Little Dream of Me: 1931 American popular song by Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt, and Gus Kahn; first recorded by Ozzie Nelson (Brunswick 6060), a standard via Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (1950), and a 1968 Mama Cass hit with The Mamas & the Papas (UK #11).

Dream Academy

The Debut: Dream Academy was a 2023 HYBE x Geffen online audition show; 20 finalists from 120,000 applicants competed over 12 weeks, producing the girl group KATSEYE.

DREAM Act

The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act) is recurring U.S. legislation, first introduced in 2001 by Hatch and Durbin, that would give child-arrival immigrants a pathway to permanent residence; never enacted, it inspired the term Dreamers and DACA.

Dream Alliance

Dream Alliance (foaled March 2001, died 2023 aged 22) was a Welsh-bred racehorse who won the 2009 Welsh Grand National at 20-1 for a £10-a-week village syndicate from Cefn Fforest, inspiring Dark Horse and Dream Horse.

Dream as One

"Dream as One" (also "Dream As One") is Miley Cyrus's 2025 end-credits ballad for Avatar: Fire and Ash, co-written with Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, and Simon Franglen, released November 14, 2025, Golden Globe-nominated; distinct from the Calgary electronic duo Dream as One.

Dream Boyz

Dream Boyz, also styled Dream Boys, are a Rwandan R&B duo formed in 2009, best known for winning the Primus Guma Guma Super Star competition in 2017.

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening

Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (Rêve provoqué par le vol d'une abeille...) is Salvador Dalí's 1944 surrealist oil of Gala asleep, 51 x 41 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Dream Chaser

Dream Chaser is a reusable lifting-body cargo spaceplane built by Sierra Space, derived from NASA's HL-20 concept and selected under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services 2 contracts.

Dream City

Dream City is the name of several unrelated venues: a Smurfs-themed indoor park in Songjiang, Shanghai (Shimao Group); a children's play space in Forest Hills, Queens; a Lucknow residential project; an Iraqi amusement park; and an Australian edutainment park.

Dream Con

Dream Con is an annual American pop culture convention founded in 2018 by the YouTube collective RDCWorld, celebrating anime, gaming, and Black fandom, now held in Houston.