Unmanned aerial vehicles, regardless of their purpose and type, are of considerable interest to a legal scientist, law enforcement officer and legislator. The number of mentions of unmanned vehicles and their types in regulatory legal acts is large; however, academic papers constantly raise the issue of multiple terms and concepts existing in the field of unmanned technologies. Moreover, many papers on criminal law regulation raise the same question. Since the issue of unmanned aerial vehicles regulation is not the first one of a kind to be discussed among legal academia, the paper attempts to consider the problem by extrapolating from existing experience. In particular, the author suggests turning to the theory of technologies and using them as a starting point to answer the question of whether it is possible to identify a single system of signs of high generality for unmanned vehicles. Accordingly, is it possible to sufficiently abstract from the particular features of products and services in order to construct a general term? Using unmanned vehicles available on the market as an example, the author shows the breadth of variation in the functions of these vehicles and how this can lead to legal conflicts and the strengthening of particular cases when trying to build a general norm. Based on the analysis, the author draws a conclusion regarding the problem posed in the title of the article.