Strategic Intelligence - Unmanned Maritime Vehicles

Strategic Intelligence - Unmanned Maritime Vehicles

Summary

Unmanned Maritime Vehicles is part of GlobalData's Strategic Intelligence series of reports on unmanned maritime vehicles and its impact across different industries. Unmanned Maritime Vehicles are essential in the defense industry, as a successful unmanned maritime vehicle attack can have severe strategic and financial consequences. In a new age of drone warfare, companies, nations, and militaries are increasingly adopting a collaborative approach. This approach involves acquisitions, sharing information on threats with their allies, and reporting attempted breaches to improve readiness postures.

This report explores emergent trends within the unmanned maritime vehicles market, examining use cases and the implementation of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and swarm technology, and what challenges must be considered in pursuing effective strategies for brand building in this market.

The proliferation of unmanned systems in the global defense market continues to have a growing impact on the future of naval warfare. Navies around the globe are increasingly investing in the development and integration of unmanned surface vehicles (USV) and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) to create ‘hybrid’ fleet structures in the interest of enhancing survivability, increasing efficiency, and reducing the long-term costs of naval operations. USVs are a new and fast-growing segment of the naval defense market, with steady investment and interest from around the globe due to the multitude of applications for this emerging technology. Though UUVs have been part of naval operations for several decades, advances in vehicular autonomy are driving a newfound interest in large platforms such as LUUVs or XLUUVs, as well as swarming capabilities for smaller UUV platforms.

GlobalData forecasts expenditures in the global UUV market to rise from $671 million in 2024 to $1.62 billion by 2034 as the market continues to surpass its previous records. Demand for military UUVs continues to be driven by the development of autonomous MCM capabilities and the implementation of hybridized fleet initiatives by several nations including China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US. However, the market for USVs continues to far outpace that of UUVs, with GlobalData anticipating the value of the global USV market to reach $2.47 billion in 2034, up from $1.07 billion in 2024. Demand for military USVs is driven by many of the same factors as for UUVs, with autonomous MCM capabilities and hybrid fleet structures driving demand for USV platforms around the globe.

Key Highlights

• Studies of emerging technological trends and their broader impact on the defense market. 
• Analysis of the various unmanned maritime vehicles solutions, programs and projects currently under development, as well as the impact of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence on the future outlook of the unmanned maritime vehicles in defense theme.

Scope

• The key defense challenges that forces and defense sector suppliers face are covered.
• The investment opportunities for armed forces, suppliers, and institutional investors, across the whole unmanned maritime vehicles in defense value chain are covered.
• Highlights from the range different unmanned maritime vehicles related research and development programs currently being undertaken by various military organizations and defense companies.

Reasons to Buy

• Determine potential investment companies based on trend analysis and market projections.
• Gaining an understanding of the market challenges and opportunities surrounding the unmanned maritime vehicles in defense theme.
• Understanding how spending on unmanned maritime vehicles and related segments will fit into the overall market and which spending areas are being prioritized.