Global Drone Market in Q3 2025: Supply Chain, Geopolitics, and Export Controls
In Q3 2025 the global drone market faces significant supply-chain pressure from component shortages, tariffs, and logistics delays, with China historically dominating motor, ESC, battery, flight controller, camera, sensor, propeller, and carbon-fiber airframe production. After China tightened dual-use drone component exports in late 2024,