The presented paper proposes a some concept of an evacuation drone that could pick up the wounded from the battlefield and transport them to their final destination for adequate medical care. The existing state of the art of drones and their equipment is described, as well as the possibility of using current technology to build a new drone. This paper presents a vision of the ‘future/ideal drone’ and the ‘technically/reasonably achievable drone today’, and consequently the levels of its development. The main rationale for choosing a drone configuration, including the basic characteristic sizes, is discussed. In view of the purpose of the drone, i.e. need to perform basic medical activities, current robots used in remote surgery were analysed. Due to the fact that the final version of the drone is to take up the wounded without the participation of a third party, design aspects related to this are presented and examples of solutions are proposed.