Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) (Defense) – Thematic Research

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Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have the potential to be used as force multipliers in many areas of the military field, including naval operations, with their modular structures and their ability to carry many different payloads. With the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in USVs at full maturity, it is expected that by the end of 2020, USVs will take part in naval battle groups with manned platforms.

The global USV market size was US$2.1 billion in 2021 and the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 3% between 2021 and 2031. The unmanned surface vehicles (USV) market research report provides an in-depth understanding of the underlying factors driving demand for USVs in the top spending countries across the world and identifies the opportunities offered. The report will also strengthen your understanding of the market in terms of demand drivers, industry trends, and the latest technological developments, among others.

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Key Trends in the USV Market

The key trends that are impacting the USV market can be classified into three categories: technology trends, macroeconomic trends, and regulatory trends.

  • Technology trends – The key technology trends impacting the USV market include modularity, growing demand for small-sized USVs for non-lethal missions, test and development centers/organizations, mothership concepts, processor chips, artificial intelligence (AI), maritime swarm technologies, and others.
  • Macroeconomic trends – The key macroeconomic trends that will shape the USV market are common procurement and R&D cost-sharing, company partnership, and economic risk.
  • Regulatory trends – The key regulatory trends impacting the USV market include Ethics in AI and collision avoidance.

USV Industry Analysis

The global USV market size was US$2.1 billion in 2021 and the utilization of the unmanned system in military and commercial areas is increasing day by day. Along with the rapid development of computers, communication, information fusion, and artificial intelligence technology, the technologies that restrain the development of unmanned vehicles will be solved one by one. It is expected that the utilization and deployment of unmanned systems will continue to grow in the future.

USV Market Value Chain

The USV industry value chain can be split into four segments: USV types, USV components layer, USV sub-components layer, and end-user layer

USV Types: The key layers under USV types are large USVs, medium USVs, small USVs, and USVs. When we come to the size of USVs, there is a significant demand for small-sized USVs that can operate in littoral water, inshore and remote areas.

USV Market Value Chain Analysis

USV Market Value Chain Analysis

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USV Market - Competitive Landscape

The leading companies in the USV market are Leidos, Gibbs & Cox, Austal USA, L3 ASV, ST Engineering, Elbit, MARTAC, and Atlas.

Defense Sector Scorecard

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  • The thematic screen tells us who are the overall leaders in the themes that matter most, based on our thematic engine.
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Defense Sector Scorecard – Thematic Screen

Defense Sector Scorecard – Thematic Screen

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USV Market Overview

Report Pages 39
Regions Covered Global
Market Size (2021) US$2.1 Billion
CAGR (2021-31) >3%
Key Trends Technology Trends, Macroeconomic Trends, and Regulatory Trends
Value Chains USV Types, USV Components Layer, USV Sub-Components Layer, and End-User Layer
Leading Companies Leidos, Gibbs & Cox, Austal USA, L3 ASV, ST Engineering, Elbit, MARTAC, and Atlas

Scope

  • Navies and companies, cooperating with universities and research and development centers, have been developing and experimenting with various USVs for many years and have transitioned some of these efforts into procurement/manufacture programs. There are still many USV programs under development and at the technology demonstration level.
  • A key driver for the development of USVs is to move people away from contested and dangerous environments to avoid casualties.
  • Large SUSVs, MSUVs and LUSVs have generally switchable and modular mission payload suites, therefore, they can perform multi-mission changing mission modules. Collective advances in technology allow these vehicles to execute more complex missions, with increased autonomy and their support packages. However, small vehicles such as VSUSVs, SUSVs, and Gliders are better suited to single-type missions, such as hydrographic survey and ISR missions.

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  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the underlying factors driving demand for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in the top spending countries across the world and identify the opportunities offered by each of them.
  • Strengthen your understanding of the market in terms of demand drivers, industry trends, and the latest technological developments, among others.

AutoNaut
Atlas Elektronik UK
Austal US
BAE Systems
Bollinger
CASC
CSIC
ECA
Elbit Systems
Fincantieri
Gibbs&Cox
HII
Ixblue
Kongsberg
L3 ASV
Leidos
Leonardo
LIG Nex1
Liquid Robotics
Lockheed Martin
Maritime Robotics
M Ship
MARTAC
Metal Shark
Meteksan
Rafael
Sea Kit
SeaRobotics
Saildrone
ST Engineering
Teledyne Marine
Textron
Thales
WAM-V Marine Advanced Robotic
Yunzhou
Zycraft

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