Global Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Market Growth (Status and Outlook) 2025-2031

The global Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles market size is predicted to grow from US$ 12510 million in 2025 to US$ 17670 million in 2031; it is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.9% from 2025 to 2031.

Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is an aircraft that does not require human pilot onboard, and is mainly used for military purposes. The drone is an integral part of the UAS; it includes the drone, the ground controller and the communication system between the two. The flight of the drone can be operated with varying degrees of autonomy: remotely controlled by the operator or autonomously operated by the onboard computer.

Watch the development direction of integrated, loyal wingman and micro-UAV, corresponding to different combat forms

Due to the continuous evolution of the form of war and the continuous development of military UAV technology, the future battlefield will be a competition of intelligent technology, and the corresponding high intelligence, high automation and unmanned equipment will be widely used. Military UAV is an organic combination of intelligence, automation and unmanned weapons, and military UAV will be widely used in actual combat. For a single UAV, the future battlefield needs more stealth, miniaturization, and multi-performance military drones to complete combat objectives as soon as possible before the enemy is unaware, which makes the UAV develop different main battle equipment or key participation combat styles. In the future, the long-term development direction of UAVs is mainly stealth UAVs, high-altitude long-endurance observation and combat integrated UAVs, loyal wingmen, and swarm-like micro-UAVs. The size of the global market grows under local conflicts

In order to reduce the loss of personnel in the future war, military UAVs will be applied in more fields. As a new battlefield weapon, military UAV can carry out various combat tasks in complex environment with its unique advantages, and with the rapid development of high-tech, it will bring major changes in the military field and even change the form of war. Through different payload platforms, military UAVs can achieve different tasks such as intelligence and reconnaissance, communication relay, electronic countermeasures, aerial early warning, combat training, and military strikes. With the continuous development of intelligent, stealth and highly integrated unmanned aerial system, it will play an important strategic and tactical position in future military wars and exercises. The global market for military UAVs continues to expand, and local conflicts will spur further expansion.

The military trade market is active, with China, the United States and Israel taking the leading share

Uavs are in high demand and the military trade market is active. Based on the current complex international form and future war trends, more and more countries have a demand for UAV equipment, but there are fewer countries in the world with the ability to independently produce high-performance military drones, so compared with traditional weapons and equipment, the global military trade market of UAV is more active. At present, the main export countries in the field of global UAV system military trade are Israel, China and the United States, and other countries such as Australia, Turkey and Italy also have some UAV exports.

LPI (LP Information)' newest research report, the “Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Industry Forecast” looks at past sales and reviews total world Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles sales in 2024, providing a comprehensive analysis by region and market sector of projected Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles sales for 2025 through 2031. With Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles sales broken down by region, market sector and sub-sector, this report provides a detailed analysis in US$ millions of the world Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles industry.

This Insight Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles landscape and highlights key trends related to product segmentation, company formation, revenue, and market share, latest development, and M&A activity. This report also analyses the strategies of leading global companies with a focus on Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles portfolios and capabilities, market entry strategies, market positions, and geographic footprints, to better understand these firms’ unique position in an accelerating global Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles market.

This Insight Report evaluates the key market trends, drivers, and affecting factors shaping the global outlook for Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and breaks down the forecast by Type, by Application, geography, and market size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, this study forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory in the global Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

This report presents a comprehensive overview, market shares, and growth opportunities of Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles market by product type, application, key players and key regions and countries.

Segmentation by Type:
Fixed Wing
Rotary Wing

Segmentation by Application:
Search and Rescue
National Defense
Military Exercises
Others

This report also splits the market by region:
Americas
United States
Canada
Mexico
Brazil
APAC
China
Japan
Korea
Southeast Asia
India
Australia
Europe
Germany
France
UK
Italy
Russia
Middle East & Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Israel
Turkey
GCC Countries

The below companies that are profiled have been selected based on inputs gathered from primary experts and analyzing the company's coverage, product portfolio, its market penetration.
Northrop Grumman
General Atomics
Lockheed Martin
Textron
Boeing
Airbus
IAI
AVIC
Aerospace CH UAV
Thales Group
AeroVironment
China Aerospace Times Electronics
Beijing Beihang Tianyu Changying UAV Technology
Xi'an Aisheng Technology
Hiwing Aviation General Equipment
Nanjing Simulation Technology Research Institute
Beijing StarNeto Technology
Sichuan Tengden Technology
Chengdu JOUAV Automation Tech
Guandian Defense Technology

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