Military Radars Market Report 2026

Military Radars Market Overview

• Military Radars market size has reached to $62.77 billion in 2025 • Expected to grow to $90.94 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9% • Growth Driver: Emerging Economies' Defense Spending Growth Fuels Military Radar Market Expansion • Market Trend: Technological Advancements In The Military Radar Market • North America was the largest region and fastest growing region.

What Is Covered Under Military Radars Market?

Military radar is a detection system used in the military to detect the presence, direction, distance, and speed of air, ground, and sea targets. The military radar includes components such as a transmitter, antenna, receiver, and indicator. The main types of the military radars market include land radar, naval radar, airborne radar, and space-based radar. Land radar refers to ground-deployed radar systems designed to detect, track, and monitor aerial, terrestrial, and maritime targets over vast areas by using advanced radio wave transmission and reception technologies. There is functionality such as surveillance and airborne early warning radar, tracking and fire control radar, multi-function radar, synthetic aperture and moving target indicator radar, and ground penetrating radar. The key applications include weapon guidance, airspace monitoring and traffic management, ground surveillance and intruder detection, air and missile defense, navigation, airborne mapping, ground force protection and counter-battery, and mine-detection and underground mapping.

What Is The Military Radars Market Growth Forecast?

The military radars market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $90.94 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing demand for high-resolution and long-range military radars, adoption of ai and machine learning for target detection and tracking, growth in integrated multi-domain radar systems for air, land, and sea operations, rising investment in mobile and deployable radar solutions, modernization of existing radar networks for enhanced situational awareness. Major trends in the forecast period include development of high-resolution imaging radar systems, miniaturization of radar components for mobile deployment, integration of multi-sensor fusion for enhanced target tracking, expansion of radar upgrade and retrofit services for legacy systems, implementation of low-probability-of-intercept (lpi) radar technologies.

Global Military Radars Market Segmentation

1) By Type: Land Radar, Naval Radar, Airborne Radar, Space-Based Radar 2) By Functionality: Surveillance And Airborne Early Warning Radar, Tracking And Fire Control Radar, Multi-Function Radar, Synthetic Aperture And Moving Target Indicator Radar, Ground Penetrating Radar 3) By Application: Weapon Guidance, Airspace Monitoring And Traffic Management, Ground Surveillance And Intruder Detection, Air And Missile Defense, Navigation, Airborne Mapping, Ground Force Protection And Counter-Battery, Mine-Detection And Underground Mapping Subsegments: 1) By Land Radar: Ground Surveillance Radar, Border Surveillance Radar, Tactical Surveillance Radar 2) By Naval Radar: Surface Search Radar, Fire Control Radar, Navigation Radar 3) By Air Radar: Fighter Aircraft Radar, Surveillance Aircraft Radar, Early Warning Radar, Maritime Patrol Radar 4) By Space-Based Radar: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Early Warning Radar, Surveillance Radar

What Is Driver Of The Military Radars Market?

The growth in defence spending is expected to propel the growth of the military radar market going forward. Defence spending refers to the total expenditure by a country’s government for its armed forces, military operations, technology development, and equipment procurement. Defence spending is rising due to increasing geopolitical tensions and the need to modernize military capabilities, strengthen national security, and maintain strategic advantages over potential adversaries. Growth in defence spending supports military radar development and deployment by providing governments with the financial resources to invest in advanced radar technologies, enhance surveillance and detection capabilities, and upgrade existing defense infrastructure to address emerging security threats effectively. For instance, in October 2025, according to the UK Parliament's House of Commons Library, a UK-based government administration, Defence spending outlined in the 2025 Spending Review is expected to total USD 83.3 billion (£62.2 billion) in 2025/26, increasing to USD 98.2 billion (£73.5 billion) in 2028/29, which corresponds to an annual average real-terms growth rate of 3.8% over this period. The growth in defense spending is driving the growth of the military radar industry.

Key Players In The Global Military Radars Market

Major companies operating in the military radars market are Lockheed Martin Corporation, Raytheon Technologies Corporation, Thales Group, BAE Systems plc, Israel Aerospace Industries, Leonardo, Saab AB, Aselsan A.S., Hensoldt AG, Airbus SE, General Dynamics Corp, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell International Inc., L3Harris Technologies Inc., Terma A/S, QinetiQ Group PLC, Reutech Radar Systems, Easat Radar Systems Limited, Indra Sistemas S.A., Bharat Electronics Limited, ZTE Corporation, Elbit Systems Ltd., Wartsila Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Safran Electronics & Defense, Selex ES Inc.

Global Military Radars Market Trends and Insights

Major companies operating in the military radar market are focusing on developing innovative products, such as passive radar, to provide reliable services to customers. Passive radar is a type of radar system that detects and tracks objects by processing reflections from non-cooperative sources of illumination in the environment, such as commercial broadcast and communications signals. For instance, in August 2023, Hensoldt AG, a Germany-based provider of defense and security electronics, launched Twinvis Military Sheltered. It is a passive radar built on the newest digital technology that can potentially be applied to civil air traffic control in medium-term or long-range military airspace monitoring. Just two people can set up and take down the Twinvis Sheltered in the field, and it may be transported on military carrier trucks flexibly and easily. The system includes infrastructure, a processor, and a high-performance antenna unit. Among other things, the modular system architecture allows for processing several digital frequency bands, allowing users and procurers to plan future incremental upgrades and growth potential.

What Are Latest Mergers And Acquisitions In The Military Radars Market? Anduril Industries Acquires US-Based Numerica Corporation To Enhance Radar And C2 Capabilities

In January 2025, Anduril Industries Inc., a US-based defence technology company, acquired the radar and command-and-control businesses of Numerica Corporation for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, Anduril plans to combine Numerica’s mathematical expertise and tracking algorithms with its own autonomous sensing to improve short-range air defence, missile warning, and vehicle protection, while accelerating the integration of Numerica’s Spyglass and Spark radars and Mimir C2 software into its Lattice platform and scaling production at its Arsenal 1 factory. Numerica Corporation is a US-based company that specializes in developing military radar systems and advanced command-and-control software.

Regional Insights

North America was the largest region in the military radar market in 2025. North America is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the military radars market during the forecast period. The regions covered in this market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in this market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain

What Defines the Military Radars Market?

The military radar market consists of sales of military radars such as simple pulse radar, moving-target indication (MTI) radar, high-range resolution radar, and imaging radars. Values in this market are factory gate values, that is, the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

How is Market Value Defined and Measured?

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified). The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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