What are the Historical Developments and Current Growth Metrics of the Electronic Warfare Systems Market?
The electronic warfare systems market has seen considerable growth due to a variety of factors.
• The market size for electronic warfare systems has seen robust expansion in the past years. The forecast illustrates an increase from $18.01 billion in 2024 to $19.08 billion in 2025, corresponding to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.9%.
This growth during the historic period is due to factors such as military upgrading initiatives, rising geopolitical conflicts, enhanced defense budgets, shifting threat scenarios, and the widespread distribution of electronic warfare capabilities.
What Is The Projected Growth Of The Electronic Warfare Systems Template Market?
The electronic warfare systems market is expected to maintain its strong growth trajectory in upcoming years.
• In the coming years, the market size for electronic warfare systems is predicted to experience robust growth, increasing to $23.65 billion by 2029 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5%.
Factors such as the increasing need for spectrum dominance, cyber warfare capabilities expansion, emphasis on network-centric warfare, focus on combating unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capabilities, and the ever-growing demand for electronic warfare training and simulation are likely driving this growth in the forecast period. Key forecast period trends encompass the adoption of cognitive electronic warfare systems, stride towards enhancing the resilience and survivability of electronic warfare, the design of multifunctional and software-defined systems, the emergence of cognitive electronic attack methods, and a keen focus on spectrum management and achieving electronic spectrum superiority.
What Are The Key Drivers Fueling Growth In The Electronic Warfare Systems Market?
The growth of the electronic warfare systems market is anticipated to be fuelled by territorial disputes and geopolitical instability in the future. Territorial disputes, which include disagreements between multiple entities over the control or ownership of a certain geographical region, and geopolitical instability, a term referring to unpredictable and volatile conditions within and among nations often sparked by shifts in power balance, regional confrontations, or geopolitical rivalries, are both crucial factors. Electronic warfare systems play a significant role in these conflicts, offering the ability to influence information in the battlespace, control the electromagnetic spectrum, and restrict adversaries from accessing specific areas or airspace. Citing the instance from February 2024, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a non-partisan and independent organization from Australia, reported that there was a 45% surge in conflict-related deaths in the year leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, recording over 100,000 overall deaths in 2021, and a 40.8% rise in drone attacks in 2022. Consequently, these territorial disputes and geopolitical instability are propelling growth in the electronic warfare systems market.
What Are The Principal Market Segments In The Global Electronic Warfare Systems Industry?
The electronic warfare systems market covered in this report is segmented –
1) By Product: Jammer, Countermeasure System, Decoy, Directed-Energy Weapon, Other Products
2) By Capability: Electronic Support, Electronic Attack, Electronic Protection
3) By Application: Airborne, Naval, Land
Subsegments:
1) By Jammer: Radio Frequency (Rf) Jammers, Communication Jammers, Radar Jammers, Gps Jammers, Missile Jammers, Drone And Uav Jammers, Cognitive And Adaptive Jammers, Pulsed And Continuous Wave Jammers
2) By Countermeasure System: Electronic Countermeasure (Ecm) Systems, Anti-Radiation Missiles (Arm), Electronic Counter-Countermeasure (Eccm) Systems, Active And Passive Countermeasure Systems, Signal Disruptor Systems, Radar Evasion And Deception Systems, Frequency Hopping Systems, Counter-Drone Electronic Systems
3) By Decoy: Infrared Decoys, Radar And Radio Frequency Decoys, Acoustic Decoys, Towed And Airborne Decoys, Missile And Rocket Propelled Decoys, Multispectral Decoys, Laser And Optical Decoys
4) By Directed-Energy Weapon: High-Powered Microwave (Hpm) Weapons, Laser Weapons (E.G., Solid-State Lasers), Electromagnetic Pulses (Emp), Anti-Missile Directed-Energy Weapons, Non-Lethal Directed-Energy Systems, Directed-Energy Systems For Counter-Drone Operations
5) By Other Products: Signal Intelligence (Sigint) Systems, Cyber Warfare Systems, Electronic Surveillance Systems, Anti-Uav And Anti-Drone Systems, Noise And Signal Disruptor Systems, Electromagnetic Field Generators
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What New Trends Are Influencing The Electronic Warfare Systems Market?
Leading firms in the electronic warfare systems market are shifting their attention to the creation of high-tech solutions, like the airborne self-protection EW suite, to improve warfare components and deliver superior battle capabilities. This suite is an assortment of electronic countermeasure systems built to safeguard aircraft from diverse threats, such as radar-guided missiles, infrared-guided missiles, and other aggressive electronic emissions. For example, Elbit Systems Ltd., a defense contract and military technology firm based in Israel, introduced an innovative electronic warfare (EW) feature integrated into their established Airborne self-protection EW suite at the Paris airshow in June 2023. This fresh feature, supplied by digital radar warning receivers (RWR), provides the capacity to detect drones, identify them, and pinpoint the location of personal location beacons (PLB) for ground troops and pilots. The EW suite, currently in use on numerous rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft, comes equipped with a variety of elements such as an EW controller, an IR missile warning system (MWS), laser warning systems (LWS), and a countermeasure dispenser system (CMDS) to boost platform protection and improve the survival rate of aircrews amidst evolving threats.
Who Are the Key Players In The Electronic Warfare Systems Market?
Major companies operating in the electronic warfare systems market are:
• Raytheon Technologies Corporation
• The Boeing Company
• Lockheed Martin Corporation
• General Electric Company
• General Dynamics Corporation
• Northrop Grumman Corporation
• BAE Systems PLC
• Thales Group
• L3Harris Technologies Inc.
• Textron Inc.
• Leonardo S.p.A.
• Rheinmetall AG
• CACI International Inc.
• Elbit Systems Ltd.
• Israel Aerospace Industries
• SAAB AB
• General Atomics
• Viasat Inc.
• Leonardo DRS
• Curtiss-Wright Corporation
• Cobham PLC
• ASELSAN AS
• Hensoldt Group
• QinetiQ Group
• Exelis Inc.
• Mercury Systems Inc.
• Ultra Electronics Holdings plc
• Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
• Aeroflex Inc.
• Chemring Group plc
What Are The Regional Insights Into The Electronic Warfare Systems Market?
North America was the largest region in the electronic warfare systems market in 2024. The regions covered in the electronic warfare systems market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East and Africa.
