European Electronic Warfare Landscape 2026
Primes, Scaleups, Cognitive EW and the Architecture Gap with the United States and China
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Strategic Electronic Support Measures Jamming & Spoofing Systems Signals Intelligence
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About this report
Europe does not lack electronic-warfare capability. It has major industrial strengths in radar warning, electronic support measures, signals intelligence, airborne self-protection, DIRCM, jamming, naval ESM, AESA multifunction systems, RF sensing and mission-system integration.
The strategic problem is different. These capabilities remain dispersed across national primes, specialist houses, platform programmes and collaborative R&D lines.
Key questions this report answers
- How is Europe's electronic-warfare perimeter (radar warning, ESM, SIGINT, DIRCM, jamming, naval ESM, AESA, RF sensing) defined amid the architectural shift?
- How is the European EW industrial base structured from national primes to specialist houses and scaleups?
- What do lessons from Ukraine and benchmarks in the United States and China reveal about competitive EW and the kill chain?
- What is the European capability gap and its industrial consequence, and what choice does Europe face?
Inside this report
- The architectural shift and the electronic warfare perimeter
- Institutions, planning and the CEW signal
- The European industrial base from primes to scaleups
- Ukraine, competitive EW and the kill chain
- Benchmarks in the United States and China
- The European capability gap and the industrial consequence
- Europe’s choice
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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