Understanding the Missile Market in Countries Involved in the South China Sea Dispute

This case study utilises content from:

• Janes Intelligence Briefings
• Janes Defence Sector Budgets
• Janes Markets Forecast
• Janes Defence Equipment and Technology
• Janes News Modules

Expert insight into the geopolitical situation in the South China Sea region and the impact on key markets

In the Intelligence Briefing series, Jane’s senior analysts investigate and reflect on questions that span across critical industry and national security concerns, including various missile platforms, domains and actors within the South China Sea. Intelligence briefings are available to all customers with an Intelligence Centre, Module or Markets Forecast subscription.

Bottom up split of our top-down view of procurement and RDT&E budgets - by market

To increase our understanding of how events in the South China Sea are impacting missile procurement, subscribers to Defence Sector Budgets can trace and forecast the budgetary allocations for missile RDT&E and procurement for every country involved in the dispute.

Janes budget content demonstrates that despite China being the biggest spender on missiles in the region, spend in countries involved in the dispute is forecast to rise over the coming years.

Understanding the missile market in the region

Markets Forecast allows subscribers to not only identify where there is revenue available for industry within the missile market, but it can anticipate the expected delivery rate to key players in the South China Sea dispute and who the main suppliers are.

View production units out to 2028 to anticipate delivery rate.

Gain insight into the main suppliers in the region.

Deepening our understanding of the missiles supplied

Markets Forecast subscribers can drill down into each supplier to gain deeper insight. In this example we can look at the programmes linked to Raytheon.

You can then drill down for more detail

Insight into specifications and characteristics

With market-leading insight, subscribers to Defence Equipment and Technology content can access a wealth of technical specifications, mission systems’ quantification and contextual variables for the missile platforms already operational in the South China Sea. We can continue from the previous Raytheon example and examine the characteristics of the AGM-65D.

Subscribers who also have access to Janes Data Analytics Module can leverage structured data and visualisation software to identify, assess and present the relationships between entities before linking through to the full profile.

Subscribers with and without Janes Data Analytics Module can access the full profile.

Building a clearer picture with related news and insight

Our network of global journalists and analysts report on the daily activities, trends and movements of the countries involved in the South China Sea, noting critical milestones in missile technology dissemination, development, and procurement. Available to Intelligence Centre and News subscribers.

What we now know ...

Using a combination of Janes content we have built up a picture of the missile market in the countries involved in the South China Sea dispute.

We used:

• Janes Intelligence Briefings to hear from Janes experts on the events surrounding the South China Sea dispute.
• Janes Defence Sector Budgets to gain insight into the procurement and RDT&E budgets for missiles in countries involved in the dispute.
• Janes Markets Forecast to identify revenue available to industry within the missile market in the region, anticipate the expected delivery rate and understand the main suppliers and programmes they are associated with.
• Janes Defence Equipment and Technology content to understand the specifications and capabilities of the missiles already operational or forecast to be delivered in the region.
• Finally, we used Janes News to keep up to date with related news, events, market trends and technological developments.