Hypersonic Technologies - Thematic Intelligence
Summary
Hypersonic technology has a long history, stretching back more than half a century. Comparable to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the perceived potential of the technology has waxed and waned over the years but increasing multi-polarity (and certainly the war in Ukraine) has driven intense investment by countries such as Russia, China, and the US.
Hypersonic refers to aerial objects-including aircraft, missiles, rockets, and spacecraft-that can reach speeds through the atmosphere greater than Mach 5, which is nearly 4,000 miles per hour (6437 km/h).
The US, Russia, and China are all testing hypersonic technology, generating fears of escalating global competition for weaponry that has the potential to render current defenses inadequate. Russia’s use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine has been confirmed, representing the first combat use of these weapons, and Ukraine has claimed the first successful interception of hypersonic missiles. This and the pace of development in China have raised concerns about the progress of the other nations’ programs. US investment culminated in fielding its first hypersonic platform in 2023.
Aside from military applications, hypersonic technology promises extremely fast commercial flight. However, given several inherent challenges to the commercial hypersonic profit model, it appears unlikely that hypersonic passenger flights will emerge as a major market.
Key Highlights
- Scientific overview of hypersonic technology
- Studies of emerging technological trends and their broader impact on the market.
- Analysis of the various military and civilian hypersonic technologies programs currently under development, their history, and projections on future development initiatives.
- Our thematic research product, supported by our thematic engine, is aimed at senior (C-Suite) executives in the corporate world, decision makers, and institutional investors.
- Corporations: Helps CEOs, CTOs, and other senior executives of companies understand this key theme, the competitive environment, and the market opportunities.
- Investors: Helps fund managers and other major investors focus on investment opportunities in aerospace and understand the market around hypersonic technologies
- The key technology and commercialisation challenges that hypersonic technologies industry faces are covered.
- The investment opportunities for prime contractors, suppliers, and institutional investors, across the whole hypersonic technologies value chain are covered.
- Highlights from the range of different sustainability programs currently being undertaken by various defense and aerospace companies.
- Determine potential investment companies based on trend analysis and market projections.
- Gaining an understanding of the market challenges and opportunities surrounding the hypersonic technologies theme.
- Understanding how spending on hypersonic technologies will fit into the overall market and which spending areas are being prioritized.
- Executive Summary
- Players
- Technology Briefing
- Definitions
- Achieving hypersonic flight
- Types of jet engine
- Turbojet engines
- Ramjet engines
- Scramjet engines
- Types of hypersonic weapons
- Hypersonic ballistic missiles
- Hypersonic cruise missiles
- Hypersonic glide vehicles (HBVs or boost-glide missiles)
- Trends
- Technology trends
- Macroeconomic trends
- Regulatory trends
- Industry Analysis
- Market size and growth forecasts
- Hypersonic defense
- Decision-making chain
- Case studies
- Industry case studies
- Country case studies
- Timeline
- Signals
- M&A trends
- Patent trends
- Company filing trends
- Hiring trends
- Value Chain
- Testing systems
- Thermal technology
- Hypersonic engines
- Control systems
- Warheads
- Missile bodies
- Hypersonic defense
- Companies
- Public companies
- Private companies
- Sector Scorecards
- Hypersonics sector scorecard
- Who’s who
- Thematic screen
- Valuation screen
- Risk screen
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- GlobalData reports
- Our Thematic Research Methodology
- About GlobalData
- Contact Us
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Technology Briefing
- Table 2: Technology trends
- Table 3: Macroeconomic trends
- Table 4: Regulatory trends
- Table 5: Market size and growth forecasts
- Table 6: Key M&A transactions associated with the hypersonics theme since 2015
- Table 7: Public companies
- Table 8: Private companies
- Table 9: Glossary
- Table 10: GlobalData reports
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Who are the leading players in the hypersonic theme and where do they sit in the value chain?
- Figure 2: The basic principle of jet engines
- Figure 3: Anatomy of a turbojet engine
- Figure 4: Anatomy of a turbofan engine
- Figure 5: Anatomy of a ramjet engine
- Figure 6: Anatomy of a scramjet engine
- Figure 7: Flight trajectory of ballistic missiles vs. hypersonic boost-glide weapons
- Figure 8: Global Missile and Missile Defense Market Projects for the Next Ten Years
- Figure 9: US hypersonic weapons development proposed budget 2023 ($M)
- Figure 10: The OODA loop
- Figure 11: The hypersonic weapons story
- Figure 12: Hypersonic technologies: volume of all deals involving defense companies, last five years
- Figure 13: Hypersonics patent trends since 2003
- Figure 14: Hypersonic industry company filings
- Figure 15: Hypersonics Job Postings and Active Jobs
- Figure 16: The hypersonics value chain - The leading technologies involved in this theme
- Figure 17: The hypersonic value chain - Hypersonic testing systems leaders and challengers
- Figure 18: The hypersonic value chain - Hypersonic thermal technology leaders and challengers
- Figure 19: The hypersonic value chain - Hypersonic engines leaders and challengers
- Figure 20: The hypersonic value chain - Hypersonic control systems leaders and challengers
- Figure 21: The hypersonic value chain - Hypersonic warheads leaders and challengers
- Figure 22: The hypersonic value chain - Hypersonic missile bodies leaders and challengers
- Figure 23: The hypersonic value chain - Hypersonic defense leaders and challengers
- Figure 24: Who does what in the hypersonics space?
- Figure 25: Thematic screen
- Figure 26: Valuation screen
- Figure 27: Risk screen
- Figure 28: Our five-step approach for generating a sector scorecard
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