Examining the Military Transport Aircraft Market

This case study utilises content from:

• Janes Markets Forecast
• Janes Defence Equipment and Technology
• Janes Defence Industry and Markets

Market analysis using Janes Market Forecast: Derived opportunities

Derived Opportunities represent Janes analysts' anticipation of requirements prior to a customer’s announcement and without benefit of any other source. These estimates can be based on ageing inventory, R&D investments, compatibility requirements, market trends, buying patterns, technology drivers or geo-political issues that may reasonably create a requirement that the customer may not currently foresee or acknowledge.

Market analysis using Janes Market Forecast: Understanding the market

By looking at Awarded Opportunities in Markets Forecast we can quickly see the top established manufacturers within the transport segment of the military aircraft market.

Focus on a specific country

Using Janes Markets Forecast you can quickly gain an understanding of the market size of a specific country, in this example India.

The chart can then be re-orientated to show the revenue available to industry for the top fixed-wing military transport platforms within the region.

Focus on the competitive environment

Changing the chart view, Markets Forecast subscribers can now view by supplier to understand the competitive environment. The data table provides more detail, which can be exported to be added to a report.

Comparing competing transport aircraft capabilities

Subscribers to Defence Equipment and Technology content can use detailed specifications and profiles to compare the capabilities across a range of platforms. In this example we'll use visualisation tools available in Explorers to enable side by side comparison of the An-32, C-17 and C-130 identified using Janes Markets Forecast.

Explorers enable you to view key structured content related to your chosen piece of equipment.

Insight into 19,000 aerospace and defence companies

Subscribers to Defence Industry and Markets can access details of over 19,000 aerospace and defence companies. This example demonstrates how you can access the profile of Boeing, identified by Markets Forecast as a supplier in India, and link directly to company structure, equipment and news related to them.

Understanding the budgetary environment

Subscribers to Defence Budgets can gain an understanding of the budgetary environment and outlook, including addressable defence investment. In this example, we’ll look at India.

Country overview.

Detailed analysis.

Summary spreadsheet provides a view of regions, treaty organisations and enables country comparisons.

Understand the status and appeal of 59 world defence markets

Subscribers to Defence Industry and Markets have access to Market Potential Index (MPI). This powerful tool provides an assessment of the status and appeal of 59 of the world’s defence markets based on factors including defence investment; defence industrial capabilities; procurement procedures and protocols; trade mechanisms; embargo status; and political, economic and security considerations. Each market can be ranked against 36 ratings to enable you to understand whether your chosen country has a positive or negative appeal.

Understanding market entry strategies

Gain an understanding of market entry strategies and requirements by country (e.g. third country access rights), procurement procedures and offsets using Market Reports.

Procurement procedures.

Offset policies.

What we now know ...

Using a combination of Janes content we have built up a picture of the military transport aircraft market in India.

We used:

• Janes Markets Forecast for market analysis, market sizing and to understand the competitor landscape and their share of market.
• Janes Defence Equipment and Technology to understand competitor capability and compare key specifications.
• Finally, we used Janes Defence Industry and Markets to understand key companies / manufacturers and for country intelligence including budget and market entry strategies.