The low-cost electronic warfare drone market size has grown rapidly in recent years. It will grow from $1.4 billion in 2025 to $1.63 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.4%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to proliferation of low-cost drones for battlefield use, advancements in electronic jamming modules, increasing need for battlefield communication disruption, deployment of swarm-enabled EW drones, rising defense procurement for asymmetric warfare.
The low-cost electronic warfare drone market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $3.02 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.7%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to adoption of AI-enabled electronic attack systems, integration with manned-unmanned team operations, development of modular EW payloads, expansion in counter-UAV missions, growing demand from emerging defense markets. Major trends in the forecast period include swarm-enabled electronic warfare deployment, integration of jamming and signal intelligence capabilities, cost-optimized modular drone design, rapid deployable battlefield ew drones, enhanced communication disruption and defense penetration.
Increasing military spending is expected to drive the growth of the low-cost electronic warfare drone market in the coming years. Military spending includes the financial resources governments allocate to maintain and improve their armed forces, covering personnel, equipment, research and development, and operational expenses. This rise in spending is largely due to escalating geopolitical tensions, prompting nations to boost their defense capabilities and protect strategic interests in a volatile environment. Higher military budgets support investment in affordable, scalable, and technologically advanced electronic warfare drones for attack and defense purposes. For example, in April 2024, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a Sweden-based non-government organization, reported that global military spending reached $2.443 trillion, a 6.8 percent increase from 2022. Consequently, increasing military expenditure is fueling growth in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market.
Leading companies are developing lightweight, energy-saving payloads that consume minimal power while performing tasks like electronic jamming and surveillance. These compact components enable drones to fly longer and complete missions more effectively. For example, in June 2025, Thales Group, a France-based aerospace company, introduced a lightweight, remotely controlled electronic warfare payload for small drones that detects and locates radio signals. Weighing less than 5 kilograms (11 pounds) and using under 40 watts of power, it can be integrated with free-flying, autonomous, or tethered drones. The system operates passively by detecting and geolocating enemy radio frequency signals from tens of kilometers away without emitting signals, helping avoid detection in contested environments. It is easy to use for personnel without specialized training and offers real-time electromagnetic intelligence, supporting dedicated electronic warfare assets and improving situational awareness for land and naval forces.
In July 2025, Terma Group, a defense technology company based in Denmark, partnered with Odd Systems to jointly develop a low-cost, AI-powered autonomous drone interceptor. This collaboration seeks to improve battlefield defense by delivering affordable and intelligent counter-drone solutions that can effectively detect, track, and neutralize hostile drones. Odd Systems, based in Ukraine, specializes in low-cost electronic warfare drones.
Major companies operating in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market are Raytheon Technologies Corporation, BAE Systems plc, Thales Group, Leonardo S.p.A., Elbit Systems Ltd., Saab AB, Aselsan A.S., General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., QinetiQ Group plc, Kratos Defense And Security Solutions Inc., Anduril Industries Inc., AeroVironment Inc., Shield AI, DroneShield Ltd., Red Cat Holdings Inc., Parrot SA, Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies Private Limited., Teal Drones Inc., Firestorm Labs Inc., TAF Industries.
North America was the largest region in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market in 2025. The regions covered in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa.
Note that the outlook for this market is being affected by rapid changes in trade relations and tariffs globally. The report will be updated prior to delivery to reflect the latest status, including revised forecasts and quantified impact analysis. The report’s Recommendations and Conclusions sections will be updated to give strategies for entities dealing with the fast-moving international environment.
Tariffs on electronic components, signal processors, and communication modules have increased production costs for low-cost electronic warfare drones, particularly impacting aerial and hybrid drone segments in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. These tariffs have led to delays in manufacturing and supply chain disruptions, affecting defense and homeland security end-users most significantly. On the positive side, tariffs have encouraged local production and innovation, pushing manufacturers to develop more cost-effective and self-reliant EW drone solutions.
The low-cost electronic warfare drone market research report is one of a series of new reports that provides low-cost electronic warfare drone market statistics, including low-cost electronic warfare drone industry global market size, regional shares, competitors with a low-cost electronic warfare drone market share, detailed low-cost electronic warfare drone market segments, market trends and opportunities, and any further data you may need to thrive in the low-cost electronic warfare drone industry. This low-cost electronic warfare drone market research report delivers a complete perspective of everything you need, with an in-depth analysis of the current and future scenario of the industry.
A low-cost electronic warfare drone is an unmanned aerial system built to deliver affordable electronic attack, protection, and surveillance capabilities. Its main function is to jam, deceive, or disrupt enemy communications, radars, and sensors while safeguarding friendly forces. These drones can be deployed in swarms to provide broad battlefield coverage with less risk to valuable assets.
The primary types of low-cost electronic warfare drones include fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid drones. A fixed-wing drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle featuring fixed wings, designed to carry out electronic warfare tasks such as jamming, disrupting, or deceiving enemy communications and radar systems, while remaining cost-effective to produce and operate. These drones come in short-range, medium-range, and long-range versions and are used across aerial, ground, and naval platforms. They support applications like military surveillance, electronic attack, signal intelligence, and jamming, serving various end-users including defense forces, homeland security, law enforcement, and others.
The countries covered in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.
The low-cost electronic warfare drone market consists of sales of jamming devices, radar deception modules, signal intelligence sensors, communication disruption devices, and swarm-enabled platforms. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is, the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.
The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).
The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.
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The low-cost electronic warfare drone market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $3.02 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.7%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to adoption of AI-enabled electronic attack systems, integration with manned-unmanned team operations, development of modular EW payloads, expansion in counter-UAV missions, growing demand from emerging defense markets. Major trends in the forecast period include swarm-enabled electronic warfare deployment, integration of jamming and signal intelligence capabilities, cost-optimized modular drone design, rapid deployable battlefield ew drones, enhanced communication disruption and defense penetration.
Increasing military spending is expected to drive the growth of the low-cost electronic warfare drone market in the coming years. Military spending includes the financial resources governments allocate to maintain and improve their armed forces, covering personnel, equipment, research and development, and operational expenses. This rise in spending is largely due to escalating geopolitical tensions, prompting nations to boost their defense capabilities and protect strategic interests in a volatile environment. Higher military budgets support investment in affordable, scalable, and technologically advanced electronic warfare drones for attack and defense purposes. For example, in April 2024, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a Sweden-based non-government organization, reported that global military spending reached $2.443 trillion, a 6.8 percent increase from 2022. Consequently, increasing military expenditure is fueling growth in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market.
Leading companies are developing lightweight, energy-saving payloads that consume minimal power while performing tasks like electronic jamming and surveillance. These compact components enable drones to fly longer and complete missions more effectively. For example, in June 2025, Thales Group, a France-based aerospace company, introduced a lightweight, remotely controlled electronic warfare payload for small drones that detects and locates radio signals. Weighing less than 5 kilograms (11 pounds) and using under 40 watts of power, it can be integrated with free-flying, autonomous, or tethered drones. The system operates passively by detecting and geolocating enemy radio frequency signals from tens of kilometers away without emitting signals, helping avoid detection in contested environments. It is easy to use for personnel without specialized training and offers real-time electromagnetic intelligence, supporting dedicated electronic warfare assets and improving situational awareness for land and naval forces.
In July 2025, Terma Group, a defense technology company based in Denmark, partnered with Odd Systems to jointly develop a low-cost, AI-powered autonomous drone interceptor. This collaboration seeks to improve battlefield defense by delivering affordable and intelligent counter-drone solutions that can effectively detect, track, and neutralize hostile drones. Odd Systems, based in Ukraine, specializes in low-cost electronic warfare drones.
Major companies operating in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market are Raytheon Technologies Corporation, BAE Systems plc, Thales Group, Leonardo S.p.A., Elbit Systems Ltd., Saab AB, Aselsan A.S., General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., QinetiQ Group plc, Kratos Defense And Security Solutions Inc., Anduril Industries Inc., AeroVironment Inc., Shield AI, DroneShield Ltd., Red Cat Holdings Inc., Parrot SA, Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies Private Limited., Teal Drones Inc., Firestorm Labs Inc., TAF Industries.
North America was the largest region in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market in 2025. The regions covered in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa.
Note that the outlook for this market is being affected by rapid changes in trade relations and tariffs globally. The report will be updated prior to delivery to reflect the latest status, including revised forecasts and quantified impact analysis. The report’s Recommendations and Conclusions sections will be updated to give strategies for entities dealing with the fast-moving international environment.
Tariffs on electronic components, signal processors, and communication modules have increased production costs for low-cost electronic warfare drones, particularly impacting aerial and hybrid drone segments in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. These tariffs have led to delays in manufacturing and supply chain disruptions, affecting defense and homeland security end-users most significantly. On the positive side, tariffs have encouraged local production and innovation, pushing manufacturers to develop more cost-effective and self-reliant EW drone solutions.
The low-cost electronic warfare drone market research report is one of a series of new reports that provides low-cost electronic warfare drone market statistics, including low-cost electronic warfare drone industry global market size, regional shares, competitors with a low-cost electronic warfare drone market share, detailed low-cost electronic warfare drone market segments, market trends and opportunities, and any further data you may need to thrive in the low-cost electronic warfare drone industry. This low-cost electronic warfare drone market research report delivers a complete perspective of everything you need, with an in-depth analysis of the current and future scenario of the industry.
A low-cost electronic warfare drone is an unmanned aerial system built to deliver affordable electronic attack, protection, and surveillance capabilities. Its main function is to jam, deceive, or disrupt enemy communications, radars, and sensors while safeguarding friendly forces. These drones can be deployed in swarms to provide broad battlefield coverage with less risk to valuable assets.
The primary types of low-cost electronic warfare drones include fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid drones. A fixed-wing drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle featuring fixed wings, designed to carry out electronic warfare tasks such as jamming, disrupting, or deceiving enemy communications and radar systems, while remaining cost-effective to produce and operate. These drones come in short-range, medium-range, and long-range versions and are used across aerial, ground, and naval platforms. They support applications like military surveillance, electronic attack, signal intelligence, and jamming, serving various end-users including defense forces, homeland security, law enforcement, and others.
The countries covered in the low-cost electronic warfare drone market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.
The low-cost electronic warfare drone market consists of sales of jamming devices, radar deception modules, signal intelligence sensors, communication disruption devices, and swarm-enabled platforms. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is, the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.
The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).
The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.
This product will be delivered within 1-3 business days.
Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Characteristics
3. Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Supply Chain Analysis
4. Global Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Trends and Strategies
5. Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Analysis of End Use Industries
7. Global Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Strategic Analysis Framework, Current Market Size, Market Comparisons and Growth Rate Analysis
8. Global Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Total Addressable Market (TAM) Analysis for the Market
9. Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Segmentation
10. Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Regional and Country Analysis
11. Asia-Pacific Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
12. China Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
13. India Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
14. Japan Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
15. Australia Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
16. Indonesia Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
17. South Korea Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
18. Taiwan Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
19. South East Asia Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
20. Western Europe Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
21. UK Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
22. Germany Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
23. France Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
24. Italy Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
25. Spain Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
26. Eastern Europe Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
27. Russia Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
28. North America Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
29. USA Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
30. Canada Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
31. South America Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
32. Brazil Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
33. Middle East Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
34. Africa Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market
36. Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Competitive Landscape and Company Profiles
37. Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Other Major and Innovative Companies
40. Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market High Potential Countries, Segments and Strategies
41. Appendix
Executive Summary
Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone Market Global Report 2026 provides strategists, marketers and senior management with the critical information they need to assess the market.This report focuses low-cost electronic warfare drone market which is experiencing strong growth. The report gives a guide to the trends which will be shaping the market over the next ten years and beyond.
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Description
Where is the largest and fastest growing market for low-cost electronic warfare drone? How does the market relate to the overall economy, demography and other similar markets? What forces will shape the market going forward, including technological disruption, regulatory shifts, and changing consumer preferences? The low-cost electronic warfare drone market global report answers all these questions and many more.The report covers market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional and country breakdowns, total addressable market (TAM), market attractiveness score (MAS), competitive landscape, market shares, company scoring matrix, trends and strategies for this market. It traces the market’s historic and forecast market growth by geography.
- The market characteristics section of the report defines and explains the market. This section also examines key products and services offered in the market, evaluates brand-level differentiation, compares product features, and highlights major innovation and product development trends.
- The supply chain analysis section provides an overview of the entire value chain, including key raw materials, resources, and supplier analysis. It also provides a list competitor at each level of the supply chain.
- The updated trends and strategies section analyses the shape of the market as it evolves and highlights emerging technology trends such as digital transformation, automation, sustainability initiatives, and AI-driven innovation. It suggests how companies can leverage these advancements to strengthen their market position and achieve competitive differentiation.
- The regulatory and investment landscape section provides an overview of the key regulatory frameworks, regularity bodies, associations, and government policies influencing the market. It also examines major investment flows, incentives, and funding trends shaping industry growth and innovation.
- The market size section gives the market size ($b) covering both the historic growth of the market, and forecasting its development.
- The forecasts are made after considering the major factors currently impacting the market. These include the technological advancements such as AI and automation, Russia-Ukraine war, trade tariffs (government-imposed import/export duties), elevated inflation and interest rates.
- The total addressable market (TAM) analysis section defines and estimates the market potential compares it with the current market size, and provides strategic insights and growth opportunities based on this evaluation.
- The market attractiveness scoring section evaluates the market based on a quantitative scoring framework that considers growth potential, competitive dynamics, strategic fit, and risk profile. It also provides interpretive insights and strategic implications for decision-makers.
- Market segmentations break down the market into sub markets.
- The regional and country breakdowns section gives an analysis of the market in each geography and the size of the market by geography and compares their historic and forecast growth.
- Expanded geographical coverage includes Taiwan and Southeast Asia, reflecting recent supply chain realignments and manufacturing shifts in the region. This section analyzes how these markets are becoming increasingly important hubs in the global value chain.
- The competitive landscape chapter gives a description of the competitive nature of the market, market shares, and a description of the leading companies. Key financial deals which have shaped the market in recent years are identified.
- The company scoring matrix section evaluates and ranks leading companies based on a multi-parameter framework that includes market share or revenues, product innovation, and brand recognition.
Report Scope
Markets Covered:
1) By Product Type: Fixed-Wing Drones; Rotary-Wing Drones; Hybrid Drones2) By Range: Short Range; Medium Range; Long Range
3) By Platform: Aerial; Ground; Naval
4) By Application: Military Surveillance; Electronic Attack; Signal Intelligence; Jamming; Other Applications
5) By End-User: Defense; Homeland Security; Law Enforcement; Other End Users
Subsegments:
1) By Fixed-Wing Drones: Small Fixed-Wing Drones; Medium Fixed-Wing Drones; Large Fixed-Wing Drones2) By Rotary-Wing Drones: Single-Rotor Drones; Multi-Rotor Drones; Coaxial Rotor Drones
3) By Hybrid Drones: Fixed-Wing Vertical Takeoff and Landing Drones; Tilt-Rotor Hybrid Drones; Convertible Hybrid Drones
Companies Mentioned: Raytheon Technologies Corporation; BAE Systems plc; Thales Group; Leonardo S.p.A.; Elbit Systems Ltd.; Saab AB; Aselsan A.S.; General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.; QinetiQ Group plc; Kratos Defense and Security Solutions Inc.; Anduril Industries Inc.; AeroVironment Inc.; Shield AI; DroneShield Ltd.; Red Cat Holdings Inc.; Parrot SA; Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies Private Limited.; Teal Drones Inc.; Firestorm Labs Inc.; TAF Industries
Countries: Australia; Brazil; China; France; Germany; India; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Russia; South Korea; UK; USA; Canada; Italy; Spain
Regions: Asia-Pacific; South East Asia; Western Europe; Eastern Europe; North America; South America; Middle East; Africa
Time Series: Five years historic and ten years forecast.
Data: Ratios of market size and growth to related markets, GDP proportions, expenditure per capita.
Data Segmentation: Country and regional historic and forecast data, market share of competitors, market segments.
Sourcing and Referencing: Data and analysis throughout the report is sourced using end notes.
Delivery Format: Word, PDF or Interactive Report + Excel Dashboard
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- Bi-Annual Data Update
- Customisation
- Expert Consultant Support
Companies Mentioned
The companies featured in this Low-Cost Electronic Warfare Drone market report include:- Raytheon Technologies Corporation
- BAE Systems plc
- Thales Group
- Leonardo S.p.A.
- Elbit Systems Ltd.
- Saab AB
- Aselsan A.S.
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.
- QinetiQ Group plc
- Kratos Defense And Security Solutions Inc.
- Anduril Industries Inc.
- AeroVironment Inc.
- Shield AI
- DroneShield Ltd.
- Red Cat Holdings Inc.
- Parrot SA
- Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies Private Limited.
- Teal Drones Inc.
- Firestorm Labs Inc.
- TAF Industries
Table Information
| Report Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| No. of Pages | 250 |
| Published | January 2026 |
| Forecast Period | 2026 - 2030 |
| Estimated Market Value ( USD | $ 1.63 Billion |
| Forecasted Market Value ( USD | $ 3.02 Billion |
| Compound Annual Growth Rate | 16.7% |
| Regions Covered | Global |
| No. of Companies Mentioned | 21 |
