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Strategic Intelligence: Hypersonic Technologies (2025)

Publisher GlobalData
Published Jul 30, 2025
Length 67 Pages
SKU # GBDT20326628

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Strategic Intelligence: Hypersonic Technologies (2025)

Summary

This report will examine some of the specific drivers hypersonic weapons development today, as well as the challenges involved, major technological hurdles, emerging trends affecting hypersonic development, and a case-by-case review of hypersonic weapons programs across several nations. Additionally, this report contains a comprehensive overview of the competitive landscape today in the defense industry's hypersonics segment.

Hypersonic technology has a long history, stretching back more than half a century. Comparable to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the perceived potential of the technology has waxed and waned over the years, but increasing multi-polarity (and the war in Ukraine) has driven intense investment by countries such as Russia, China, and the US. Hypersonic refers to aerial objects-including aircraft, missiles, rockets, and spacecraft-that can reach speeds through the atmosphere greater than Mach 5, which is nearly 4,000 miles per hour (6437 km/h). The Mach number indicates how many times the speed of sound an object is traveling. As objects travel faster, technical challenges such as atmospheric heating increase exponentially, a paradigm that has historically limited designers.

Key Highlights
  • Studies of emerging technological trends and their impact on hypersonics
  • Analysis of several countries and their position in the hypersonic technologies production picture, along with an overview of government actions and regulations pertaining to large-scale defense production.
Scope
  • The key supply challenges that defense sector suppliers face are covered.The investment and security-of-supply opportunities for armed forces, suppliers, and institutional investors, across much of the hypersonic technologies value chain are covered. An overview of some of the most critical aspects of the supply chain and value chain are covered.
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 hypersonic technologies theme.
  • Understanding how spending on hypersonic technologies will fit into the overall defense market and which supply chains and defense products are being prioritised.

Table of Contents

67 Pages
Executive Summary
Players
Technology Briefing
Definitions
Classification of flight speeds
Achieving hypersonic flight
Types of jet engine
Types of hypersonic weapons
Hypersonic ballistic missiles
Hypersonic cruise missiles
Hypersonic glide vehicles (HBVs or boost-glide missiles)
Trends
Technology trends
Macroeconomic trends
Regulatory trends
Industry Analysis
Market size and growth forecasts
Hypersonic defense
Decision-making chain
Hypersonic commercial aircraft
Case studies
Industry case studies
Country case studies
Timeline
Signals
M&A and venture financing trends
Patent trends
Company filing trends
Hiring trends
Value Chain
Testing systems
Thermal technology
Hypersonic engines
Control systems
Warhead
Missile bodies
Hypersonic defense
Companies
Public companies
Private companies
Sector Scorecards
Defense sector scorecard
Who’s who
Thematic screen
Valuation screen
Risk screen
Glossary
Further Reading
GlobalData reports
Our Thematic Research Methodology
About GlobalData
Contact Us
List of Tables
Table 1: Classification of flight speeds
Table 2: Technology trends
Table 3: Macroeconomic trends
Table 4: Regulatory trends
Table 5: Industry Analysis
Table 6: The cost of procurement for existing systems
Table 7: The key M&A transactions associated with the hypersonics theme
Table 8: Public companies
Table 9: Private companies
Table 10: Glossary
Table 11: GlobalData reports
List of Figures
Figure 1: Who are the leading players in the hypersonics theme, and where do they sit in the value chain?
Figure 2: Mathematics of Mach speeds
Figure 3: The basic principles of a jet engine
Figure 4: Anatomy of a turbojet engine
Figure 5: Anatomy of a turbofan engine
Figure 6: Anatomy of a ramjet engine
Figure 7: Anatomy of a scramjet engine
Figure 8: Flight trajectory of ballistic missiles vs. hypersonic boost-glide weapons
Figure 9: Global missile and missile defense market projects for the next ten years
Figure 10: The OODA loop
Figure 11: The hypersonic weapons story
Figure 12: Hypersonic technologies: volume of all deals involving defense companies
Figure 13: Hypersonics patent trends since 2003
Figure 14: Hypersonic industry company filings
Figure 15: Hypersonics job postings and active jobs
Figure 16: The hypersonics value chain
Figure 17: The hypersonics value chain - Testing systems
Figure 18: The hypersonics value chain - Thermal technology
Figure 19: The hypersonics value chain - Hypersonic engines
Figure 20: The hypersonics value chain - Control systems
Figure 21: The hypersonics value chain - Warhead
Figure 22: The hypersonics value chain - Missile bodies
Figure 23: The hypersonics value chain - Hypersonic defense
Figure 24: Who does what in the defense space?
Figure 25: Thematic screen
Figure 26: Valuation screen
Figure 27: Risk screen
Figure 28: Our five-step approach for generating a sector scorecard

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