<p class="font8" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Unmanned aerial vehicles aredefined as systems that can fly without a pilot and can be managed remotely.UAV and UAV system are defined separately in the UAV Instructions of theGeneral Directorate of Civil Aviation of Turkey (SHGM). Advances in unmannedaerial vehicle technologies have triggered the emergence of new termsdescribing these systems. 19th century It has been observed that UAVs have beenused effectively in many battles in the period from the first air attack withhot air balloons, defined as UAVs, in the first half to the present day. UAVsystems have a wide range of uses, including civil-commercial, military,twin-mission, research, scientific and developmental. The use of UAVs,especially in the military field, has played the biggest role in thedevelopment of UAV technologies. When the powerful armies in the world,especially NATO countries, are examined, it is seen that they have many anddiverse UAV systems. In the study, classification approaches made byinternational institutions and organizations that are binding on many countriesin terms of determining a common standard worldwide on UAVs were examined.These institutions and organizations; The North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the EuropeanAviation Safety Agency (EASA), the International Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO) and the Turkish Civil Aviation General Directorate (SHGM). In thestudies carried out by these institutions, it has been examined whether theclassification factors and values are made according to which classificationfactors and whether they are inclusive in terms of all kinds of UAVs. It hasbeen seen that the classification studies are more suitable for the UAV systemsused in the civil-commercial field rather than the UAVs used in the militaryfield. For this reason, a classification approach has been proposed for the UAVsystems used in the military fields, in accordance with the mission thesesystems undertake in the battlefield and the unit levels performing this task.The proposed classification approach is based on NATO's UAV classificationapproach, which is the most widely used and accepted worldwide, and theclassification parameters selected by considering the UAV systems in theTurkish Armed Forces inventory and the organizational structure used by theAir-Land-Navy Forces and battlefield effectiveness. was created. It wasevaluated that this study contributed to the literature with the classificationstudy, which is a first for UAVs used in the military field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>