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Strategic Intelligence - Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Publisher GlobalData
Published Aug 11, 2025
Length 80 Pages
SKU # GBDT20455889

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Strategic Intelligence - Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Summary

Unmanned Ground Vehicles is part of GlobalData's Strategic Intelligence series of reports on unmanned technologies and its impacts across different industries. UGVs are finally making a mark in modern warfare, and their use can have severe strategic and financial consequences. To overcome developmental hurdles, companies, nations, and militaries are increasingly adopting a collaborative approach. This approach involves public and private investment in the sector and constant experimentation in Ukraine.

This report explores emergent trends within the UGV market, examining use cases and the implementation of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and remote sensors, and what challenges must be considered in pursuing effective strategies for brand building in this market.

Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have been a distant second thought for those thinking about the future of unmanned warfare. Indeed, Russia’s unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine has demonstrated the utility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned maritime vehicles (UMVs), but until recently, UGVs have rarely been mentioned. Yet warfare drives innovation, and the UGV sector has been developed by Ukrainian fighters seeking to manage personnel shortages. Since the start of that war, the use of UGVs for logistical, engineering, surveillance, and combat support roles has exploded, and Ukraine now plans to deliver 15,000 ground robots for combat use by the end of 2025. While it is important to recognize that UGVs still account for a fraction of the total of unmanned support in conflicts, the utility of UGVs has at long last been exploited by those on the battlefield. Modern UGVs are now suitable for a wide variety of defense and security applications beyond the traditionally limited scope of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), with nations including China, France, India, Russia, the UK, and the US developing logistics, ISR, and combat-capable UGV platforms.

To capitalize on the growth of the UGV market, key industry players have been investing heavily in expanding their research, development, and manufacturing capabilities, with both established defense primes like Rheinmetall and KMW as well as emerging players such as EDGE Group engaging in mergers and acquisitions of specialist firms within the UGV supply chain to pre-emptively secure market shares in an emerging capability sector. Firms with expertise in associated technologies such as AI, weapons systems, mobility solutions, and power supply/management will also benefit from growing demand as the diversified applications for UGVs provide new opportunities to engage with primes and forge strategic partnerships to cement their positions within the supply chain.

Studies of emerging technological trends and their broader impact on the defense market. 

Analysis of the various unmanned ground vehicle 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 ground vehicles 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 ground vehicles value chain are covered.
  • Highlights from the range different unmanned ground 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 ground vehicles theme.
  • Understanding how spending on unmanned ground vehicles and related segments will fit into the overall market and which spending areas are being prioritized.

Table of Contents

80 Pages
Executive Summary
Players
Technology Briefing
Overshadowed - UAVs and early hurdles to military UGV development
Novel UGV designs: four primary uses in four sizes
Combat UGVs
Trends
Technology trends
Macroeconomic trends
Regulatory trends
Industry Analysis
Market size and growth forecasts
Further breakdowns
Mergers and acquisitions
Patent trends
Timeline
Case studies
Australia
Canada
China
Estonia
European Union & international programs
France
Germany
India
Israel
Russia
South Korea
Turkey
Ukraine
The United Kingdom
The United States
Value Chain
Armament & remote weapons stations
Autonomous systems
C4ISR systems
Platforms & mobility solutions
Power supply & management solutions
Companies
Leaders
Disruptors
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: Novel UGV designs: four primary uses in four sizes
Table 2: GlobalData classifies UGVs into four sub-segments, dependent on the platform’s primary use
Table 3: Technology trends
Table 4: Macroeconomic trends
Table 5: Regulatory trends
Table 6: Mergers and acquisitions
Table 7: Leaders
Table 8: Disruptors
Table 9: Glossary
Table 10: GlobalData reports
List of Figures
Figure 1: Who are the leading players in the UGV theme and where do they sit in the value chain?
Figure 2: UGVs for EOD and CBRNE - The Centaur UGV
Figure 3: he US Army’s unmanned ground vehicles – development campaign objectives
Figure 4: The global military unmanned ground vehicles market forecast 2025–35 ($M)
Figure 5: Market share forecast, by segment, 2025–35 (%) & Market share forecast, by region, 2025–35 (%)
Figure 6: Market forecast, total value of top five countries, 2025–35 ($M)
Figure 7: UGV patents by assignee, 2020-2025
Figure 8: Military UGV patents by regional authority, 2020-2025
Figure 9: The unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) story
Figure 10: The Liut (Fury) UGV has been deployed to the frontline
Figure 11: The unmanned ground vehicles value chain
Figure 12: The armament & RWS value chain
Figure 13: The autonomous systems value chain
Figure 14: The C4ISR systems value chain
Figure 15: The platforms & mobility solutions value chain
Figure 16: The power supply & management solutions value chain
Figure 17: Who does what in the defense space?
Figure 18: Thematic screen
Figure 19: Valuation screen
Figure 20: Risk screen
Figure 21: Our five-step approach for generating a sector scorecard

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