Determination of prospective technological trends in the field of «special equipment» (measuring air defense, radio location, radio electronic warfare and radio communication) on the basis of scientific and patent analysis

The subject of the study is global trends in the field of military technologies on the topic of «Special equipment (including means of air defense, radio location, radio electronic warfare and radio communication)», determined on the basis of data research of international scientific and patent databases.The purpose of the research is aimed at determining the most promising technological directions of special means of defense and weapons for further forecasting their development in the near future.Research methods. Comparative, logical–structural, analytical and systemic analysis.Results of work. The conducted research will make it possible to assess the current state of technology in the field of armaments and defense on the topic of «Special means (including means of air defense, radar, electronic warfare and radio communication)». For this, the following steps were taken. First, on the basis of the National Classifier DK 020:2016 «Uniform Classifier of Items of Supply» in the field of armaments and equipment, a corresponding list was formed, which included 95 keywords. Secondly, according to key words, the most promising scientific and technological areas of the specified topic were investigated using the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) database (scientific publications) and the Derwent Innovation database (information on patents from 59 global patent databases). Thirdly, the most promising technological directions in the field of armaments and defense technologies were determined, that is, the directions with the highest growth rates of publication and patent activity, the highest growth rates of citations and saturation of patents on the landscape map.The scope of the results. Economics and management of the national economy, methods and mechanisms of regulation of economic processes and their efficiency, promising directions of the development of the military–industrial complex (MIC).Conclusions. The result of these studies was the identification of the most promising technological trends in the field of armaments and defense on a specific topic; among them 19 types of means of defense and weapons: passive air defense; High to Medium Air Defense (HIMAD); Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ); total air defense; side–looking airborne radar; moving–target indication radar; phased–array radar; search/tracker radar; early warning ground–based radar (EW GBR); radar clutter; guidance radar; 360° fixed radar; surveillance radar; over–the–horizon ground–based radar; pulse radar; stacked array radar; early warning radar station; grass.