The invention discloses the general layout of an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of taking off with catapult assisted and being recovered by bumping a net. The unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a vehicle head, a vehicle body, a wing, a propeller, a tail pipe, a horizontal tail and a vertical tail. The abdomen of the vehicle body is a plane, the wing is mounted on the upper portion of the vehicle body, and the tail pipe and the propeller are mounted at the tail of the vehicle body. The propeller is mounted at the upper end of the tail of the vehicle body, the tail pipe is mounted at the lower end of the tail of the vehicle body, and the bottom of the tail pipe is flush with the abdomen plane of the vehicle body. A paddle closest to the tail pipe is kept a distance from the tail pipe when the paddles of the propeller are located in the vertical direction. A catapult hanging point for catapult-assisted taking off of the unmanned aerial vehicle is arranged on the abdomen of the vehicle body. The vehicle body and the wing are directly connected in a detachable mode, the vehicle body and the tail pipe are directly connected in a detachable mode, and the tail pipe and the horizontal tail are directly connected in a detachable mode. The unmanned aerial vehicle has the characteristics of being capable of being conveniently recovered by bumping the net, convenient to assemble and disassemble, high in pneumatic efficiency and the like.