"Unmanned Maritime Vehicles" is part of the analyst'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.
The analyst 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 the analyst 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.
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.
The analyst 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 the analyst 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.
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Players
- Technology Briefing
- Unmanned systems in the naval domain
- Unmanned underwater vehicles
- Unmanned surface vehicles
- Trends
- Technology trends
- Macroeconomic trends
- Regulatory trends
- Industry Analysis
- Market size and growth forecasts
- Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV)
- Unmanned surface vessels (USV)
- Use cases
- Timeline
- Signals
- M&A trends
- Patent trends
- Value Chain
- Artificial intelligence & autonomy solutions
- USV platforms
- UUV platforms
- Payloads & remote weapons stations
- Power supply & management solutions
- Companies
- Leader companies
- Disruptor companies
- Sector Scorecards
- Aerospace, defense & security sector scorecard
- Glossary and Key Terms
- Further Reading
- Thematic Research Methodology
- About the Analyst
- Contact the Publisher
- Size - UUVs
- Size - USVs
- Technology Trends
- Macroeconomic Trends
- Regulatory Trends
- M&A Trends
- Leader Companies
- Disruptor Companies
- Glossary and Key Terms
- Further Reading
- Leading players in the theme on the value chain
- US Navy's UUVs
- UUV applications
- US Navy's USVs
- USV applications
- Global UUV market forecast
- Global USV market forecast
- US Navy's Project Overlord
- Timeline
- Patent publication trends by nation
- Patent publication trends by top producers
- UMV value chain
- AI and autonomy solutions value chain
- USV value chain
- UUV value chain
- Payloads & remote weapons value chain
- Power supply & management value chain
- Who's who scorecard
- Valuation chain scorecard
- Risk screen scorecard
- Thematic screen scorecard
- Scorecard approach
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- AirMar Technology Corp
- Anduril
- Aquabotix
- Ares Shipyard
- AutoNaut
- Bollinger Shipyards
- BoxFish Research
- Corvuus Energy
- CSIC
- Daeyong Electric Corp
- DEARSAN
- Deep Trekker
- EDGE Group
- EdgeTech
- ELAC Sonar
- Epsilor
- Escribano E&S
- Forum Energy Technologies
- Geospectrum Technologies
- Hyundai
- Hanwha Ocean
- International Submarine engineering
- Kitware
- Kraken Robotics
- Larsen &Turbo
- Marakeb Technologies
- Marine AI
- Marine Sonic Technology
- Marinette Marine
- MEP Technologies
- Meteksan Defense Systems
- Mitsui E&S
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
- MSI-DS
- MSubts
- Navantia
- Ocean Alpha
- Ocius
- Open Water Power
- Poly Defense
- Saildrone
- Sagar Defense
- Sea Robotics
- SeaFloor Systems
- SeaBotix
- SoarTech
- Soil Machine Dynamics
- SubTech
- SwiftShips
- Atlas Elektronik UK
- Austal
- BAE Systems
- Boeing
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
- ECA Robotics
- Elbit Systems
- Exail
- Gibbs & Cox
- Hanwha Defense
- Huntington Ingalls Industries
- Israel Aerospace Industries
- Kongsberg
- L3 Harris
- Leidos
- Leonardo
- LIG Nex1
- Lockheed Martin
- Maritime Robotics
- Naval Group
- Northrop Grumman
- QinetiQ
- Rafael Advanced Defense
- Saab
- Sonardyne International
- ST Engineering
- Teledyne Marine
- Textron Systems
- Thales
- ThyssenKrupp Marine
- Ultra Electronics
- Yunzhou Intelligence Technology