The International Fighter 2025 Market Report provides a detailed analysis of global fighter aircraft market trends, forecasts, and procurement activities from 2025 to 2030.

Insights include:

• Emerging technologies
• Regional spending patterns
• The transition to sixth-generation platforms
• Key drivers shaping the future of combat airpower

The report also highlights major national programmes, leading defence contractors, and evolving strategic priorities across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. As the market moves toward increasingly networked, AI-driven, and interoperable systems, the International Fighter 2025 Market Report serves as an essential resource for decision-makers navigating a fast-changing global fighter landscape.

Explore the latest trends and investment priorities shaping the future of air combat in this interactive market report.

Built for customisability, the tool allows you to dive into real-time data across global regions and better understand the landscape driving fighter innovation. Key insights include:

• Annual and regional defence spending forecasts
• Programme volume and distribution by type
• Total spend by country and programme classification
• Supplier analysis, including total contract value by type

Whether you're a solution provider, programme leader, or strategic decision-maker, this tool offers a powerful overview of global developments and procurement priorities in the air combat domain.

Use the filters to tailor the data to your needs and gain strategic insight into where opportunities lie.

SEAD/DEAD has come to the forefront of conversation as RUSI fighter expert Justin Bronk shares his views on this urgent capability gap. This paper is a clarion call for Western forces to recognise the importance of securing the air against ground defence systems.

The economic impact of defence spending is a complicated subject. Detractors of defence spending cite a variety of reasons why defence spending is wasteful, ineffective or harmful and that it diverts resources from more urgent or beneficial areas such as education, healthcare and development. Could NATO’s failure to deter Russia from invading Ukraine be seen as insufficient commitment to defence spending? The answer is not simplistic, and neither is the case for and against spending on defence. Does defence spending benefit the economy or is it a waste of resources? We recently came across a detailed study conducted by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) on the economic impact of defence spending which we thought was interesting.

In this content piece, Defence IQ has collected the various news pieces related to fighter procurement into one easy to read cited document. This document supplements the up-coming market report by providing the latest happenings in fighter procurement for all the world’s major air forces.

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Find out which companies of key stakeholders from the MoD, RAF, US Air Combat Command, USAF, French Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force, alongside NATO colleagues from North America and Western Europe who attended our last conference, many of which have confirmed their attendance again for 2022.

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