Amphibious Ship Market: By Technology and By Geography - Forecast 2016-2022

There are various classes of ships available with navy such as amphibious warships, aircraft carriers, destroyers, littoral warships, support craft and submarines. An amphibious warship is employed to support ground forces in amphibious assaults. An amphibious warships is intended to operate in a short distance warfare which also include shore to shore technique.

Globally, the amphibious warship market has been witnessing a relatively steady growth, which has been primarily attributed to force projection over the sea. Many countries are planning to develop the amphibious warship to protect their sea shores. India is looking forward to scale up its amphibious warfare capabilities with an expected expenditure of approximately $3 Billion.

Market Dynamics:
The global navy ship building and defense is driven by the factors such as national security, territorial integrity and sovereign state. National security is a concept that a government, along with its parliament(s), should protect the state and its citizens against all kind of "national" crises through a variety of power projections, such as political power, diplomacy, economic power, military might, and so on. Whereas Territorial integrity is the principle under international law that nation-states should not attempt to promote secessionist movements or to promote border changes in other nation-states. Conversely it states that imposition by force of a border change is an act of aggression.

The electrical propulsion system will be one of the major driver in procuring amphibious warships. This will further increase the payload capacity of the ship with endurance reaching around 1000 nautical miles.

Countries are specifically looking to integrate the aviation capabilities into the amphibious ships. This will further increase the cost of construction. In addition, this will reduce the speed of the ships and its capability to operate near shore area.

Competitive Landscape:
The report comprises of companies operating in the global destroyers market such as Thales, Fincantieri, BAE System, DCNS, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Navantia, Wincaton, Finmeccanica, Northrop Grumman Corporation, General Atomics, Babcock, United Shipbuilding, Cochin Shipyard and others. Market players have been profiled in terms of attributes such as company overview, financial overview, business strategies, and recent developments.

Scope of the Report:
The amphibious warship market can be divide according to its technology capabilities and it has been segmented as follows:

Based on Technology Type:

Propulsion System
Catapult System
Fixed Wing Aircraft
Command and Control System
Missile Launching System
Radar System
Radar Absorbent Material
Others
Based on Region:

America
Europe
Asia-Pacific
Rest of the World
Recent Industry Trends:
The current industry trend is to develop new amphibious assault ship that is typically designed to support a blue-water fleet. The stealth features are expected to be integrated in the ship for greater extent.

Insight 1: Recently constructed a fourth YUZHAO-class (Type 071), which is capable of amphibious and logistical operations in the near seas, although it is also equipped to support expeditionary operations and nontraditional security missions, such as counter piracy patrols, around the world
Insight 2: China is expected to begin construction on Type 081-class amphibious assault ship within the next five years. The ship is believed to be of the order of 20,000 tones and may be based on the Type 0781 hull.

Research Methodology:
The quantitative and qualitative data collected for the amphibious warship report is from a combination of secondary and primary sources. Research interviews were conducted with senior executives and/or mangers in the destroyer Industry. These Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) were then provided a questionnaire to gather quantitative and qualitative inputs on their operations, performance, strategies and views on the overall market, including key developments and technology trends. Data from interviews is consolidated, checked for consistency and accuracy, and the final market numbers are again validated by experts. The global market was split by product types and geography based on different factors like primary and secondary sources, understanding of the number of companies operating in each segment and also KOL insights.

To understand the trend in research and development of navy ship segments, and their priorities, the publisher undertook exploratory patent analysis to lay an initial foundation for future research on development and use of amphibious warship. The exploratory analysis focused on identifying development related to technology of ships based systems, with an emphasis on certain technology parameters which intended to understand the roles that various countries sees for naval systems. In addition analyzing trends in development of ships system and exploring how countries could deploy these systems; and identifying areas for further research and potential future developments. The publisher has analyzed patents in several different parameters in navy ships segment technologies. The patent analysis has also helped us to deduce and map the futuristic technologies in most efficient way. The technology roadmap is developed using bottom-up approach. The technology roadmap is categorized in three parts i.e. short term (less than 10 years), medium term (from 10 to 20 years) and long term from (more than 20 years).

Key Secondary resources include Department of Defense websites from various countries and private companies’ website covered in this report.