Fighter Aircraft Market Report 2016

Worldwide, an estimated 4,000 fighters, valued between $260 billion - $367 billion are forecast to be procured over the next 15 years. Despite the rapid increase in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) numbers worldwide and future plans for Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles (UCAVs), the fighter market is still buoyant. Fighter programmes are planned to continue well into the 2020s in the U.S.A, Russia, China, India and Sweden, while Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey have plans to enter the fighter market with their own indigenous designs.

Fighter requirements have been identified in 29 countries, while active fighter procurement programmes are also under way in 29 countries. This report, which you can download from our event site by clicking on the link below, is intended to provide a surface-level overview of current global fighter aircraft inventories and to highlight key active programmes either rumoured or in development.

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