Zeitschrift für Verteidigungsstudien und Ressourcenmanagement

Inventory Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for a NATO Member Army

Ahmet Emin Yildiz

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are the most popular systems in defense technologies. The fact that UAVs produced thanks to the developing technology have different capabilities has led developed armies to include these systems in their inventories. It is seen that the armies in the world that use and develop UAVs are mostly NATO member countries. In this study, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), which has the second largest army in NATO, was selected as the reference army and the UAV inventory was analyzed with a new method. Three analysis parameters were used as a method in the study. These are battlefield effectiveness analysis parameter, performance-based classification factors analysis parameter and origin analysis parameter. As a result, the UAV inventory of a NATO member army was analyzed and proposals for the UAV inventory were presented. This study is expected to contribute to inventory studies for all armies with UAV systems in their inventory.