The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market 2009-2019 - examines one of the defence industry's most interesting and promising markets. Our market study reviews leading UAV programmes and products, with the prospects and outlook for providers of UAV systems and technologies. Those pilot-less aircraft are taking on important battlefield and security roles, becoming crucial to missions and other operations. Pending new rules, a significant civil UAV market is also poised to flourish. The high priority assigned to UAVs has made those products and systems relatively resistant to the global economic downturn, visiongain concludes. This report discusses that market in detail, explaining its characteristics and potential from 2009 onwards.

The future of the command and control technology will lie in the enhancement of the current capabilities while keeping the easiness of use. The need for sophisticated systems that can easily be operated with just a short training and are capable of commanding all sorts of equipment will be the main requirement of European navies. The complexity of the system will of course depend on the tasks a ship has to fulfill, on the sensor and equipment suit and on the ability to upgrade the system, but still all navies will value most price competitive and easy upgradeable solutions.

Defence logistics is moving from a mass model of dumping huge amounts of supplies into a combat theater to a lean, agile delivery system focused on war fighter needs. This research service on European defence logistics (information systems) market covers the software systems market which facilitates modern military logistics in ten nations of Europe and Israel. The provision of software for defence logistics is an area which is lucrative and open to a large number of market participants. The various logistics IT programmes of ten nations in Europe and Israel are described along with the current and projected levels of investments.

The European naval sensor market is currently undergoing a big change. The need of upgrades and forthcoming new procurements will drive the market over the forecast period 2008-2017. The purpose of this study is to analyse the changing market over the forecast period.

The engine manufacturers and MRO service providers are increasingly focused on engine efficiency to optimize fuel consumption and match environmental regulations on emission and noise levels. Fleet operators across the globe have delayed deliveries and are looking at improving fuel efficiency on existing aircraft. The significance of need for fuel efficiency will continue to increase the demand for engine MRO. Shorter MRO cycles are seen as an elucidation for fleet operators being able to sustain and match regulations amidst delayed deliveries, despite the slowdown. The overall MRO market has partially been able to offset the impact of recession, as regular maintenance activities are continuing. The engine MRO market in particular has proven to be the most promissory in its growth. The engine MRO market is dominated by six major participants, who hold about 69.8 per cent of the market share. With further consolidation anticipated, the engine MRO market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.6 per cent from 2008 to 2018. The scope of this research is to explore the market for commercial engine MRO with specific reference to CF34, CFM56 and the V2500, which constitute approximately 30 per cent of the engines in the market.

Communication is a fundamental enabler in modern warfare. The chain of command and control (C2) from political to strategic, down to tactical level depends on seamless transfer of information, for which a secured communication backbone is absolutely fundamental. STRATCOM forms that fundamental backbone, and interconnects all the platforms in a battle environment facilitating C2 and decision making for the superior commanders. On the other hand, tactical comm. interconnects all war fighters in a theatre environment where a force of division size or below usually operates. It eventually forms a loop to the STRATCOM backbone enabling seamless connectivity between theatres of operations.

This service aims forecasting the seaport security spending in the European Union Accession States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus ) over the period 2008- 2016, assess market dynamics and the competitive environment and present interested parties with suggestions and recommendations on hot to approach the EU Accession Seaport Security markets.