Facts

• Segment: Defense
• Country: South Korea
• Founded: 2000
• Website: https://www.hanwhasystems.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Supply chain relationships
• Sources

Summary

Hanwha Systems develops defence electronics, sensors, avionics, radar, command systems and ICT products. Its unmanned-systems work includes autonomous maritime platforms, drone detection, mission systems and sensor technologies for air, land and sea operations.

Market context

Major Korean defense-technology supplier with direct counter-UAS and directed-energy air defense role through Cheongwang laser anti-drone system. Defense electronics, radar, sensing, communications, and C2 systems for military platforms including Cheongwang laser anti-drone system.

Facts

• Website: https://www.hanwhasystems.com
• HQ: Seoul, South Korea
• Founded: 2000
• Segment: Defense
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2022-06-14 - Strategic investment - $102M - Hanwha Systems and Hanwha Aerospace invest KRW 150B in Overair eVTOL developer - source: hanwhasystems.com

Defense sensors, C2 and counter-drone systems for unmanned platforms

Hanwha Systems develops defense electronics, radar, electro-optics, C5I, avionics, communications and laser systems. Its public defense pages connect these capabilities to ISR, UAV payloads, unmanned systems, drone surveillance radar and laser systems for small-UAV engagement.

• Target environment: Defense ISR, Korean and export military programs, UAV payloads, counter-UAS systems, avionics, command networks, radar coverage and electro-optical surveillance.
• Deployment model: Defense electronics and systems-integration model supplying sensors, C2, radar, EO/IR payloads, communications and directed-energy systems into military platforms and programs.
• Customer context: Military customers, defense primes, aerospace programs, UAV platform teams and government agencies needing sensing, command or counter-drone capability.
• Workflow context: Target detection, EO/IR imaging, radar search and tracking, UAV mission payloads, command and control, tactical communications, counter-UAS detection and laser engagement.
• Commercial maturity: Mature defense-technology supplier. Robotics relevance is strongest in the sensor, command, ISR and counter-drone infrastructure around unmanned systems rather than consumer robotics.
• Market position: Defense autonomy infrastructure supplier with radar, EO/IR, C2 and counter-UAS exposure.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on procurement cycles, export controls, platform integration, reliability, interoperability, classification constraints, test performance and defense budget timing.
• Adjacent context: Defense electronics, UAV payloads, radar, electro-optics, counter-UAS, laser weapons, C5I, ISR and unmanned-system integration.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2022-06-14 - Funding - Hanwha Systems and Hanwha Aerospace invest KRW 150B in Overair eVTOL developer - The investment targeted Overair's electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft development.
• 2020-12-24 - Partnership - Hanwha Systems invests $30M in Kymeta for LEO satellite antenna collaboration - The investment targeted Kymeta's metamaterial-based electronically steerable antenna technology.

Supply chain relationships

• satellite antenna technology partner - Hanwha Systems invested in Kymeta and planned LEO satellite antenna collaboration around electronically steerable antenna technology.