- International families
- 2262015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States1.1× the next
- All families
- 949home filings included
- Over five years
- Rising2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families by country of origin and the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in. International families are those for which protection was sought beyond one country.
Volume
International patent families in the capability, by the year of the earliest filing.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Share by country
Each country's share of the year's international families, in per cent: the capability's five largest countries of origin, 2015 to 2024, and the rest of the world.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Country leaderboard
International patent families, 2015 to 2024, by country of origin. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.
Ten largest
United States
United Kingdom
Türkiye
Germany
South Korea
France
China
Sweden
Japan
Italy
45
40
29
23
15
15
10
9
7
7
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 45 | 19.9% | 1.1× | 132 | |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 40 | 17.7% | 1.1× | 46 | |
| 3 | Türkiye | 29 | 12.8% | 3.8× | 37 | |
| 4 | Germany | 23 | 10.2% | 1.6× | 27 | |
| 5 | South Korea | 15 | 6.6% | 0.9× | 151 | |
| 6 | France | 15 | 6.6% | 1.1× | 15 | |
| 7 | China | 10 | 4.4% | 1.0× | 440 | |
| 8 | Sweden | 9 | 4.0% | 0.8× | 9 | |
| 9 | Japan | 7 | 3.1% | 0.8× | 13 | |
| 10 | Italy | 7 | 3.1% | 1.3× | 10 | |
| 11 | Israel | 7 | 3.1% | 1.3× | 7 | |
| 12 | Australia | 5 | 2.2% | 1.5× | 5 | |
| 13 | Finland | 3 | 1.3% | 2.0× | 3 | |
| 14 | Canada | 2 | 0.9% | 1.0× | 4 | |
| 15 | Austria | 1 | 0.4% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 16 | Spain | 1 | 0.4% | – | 2 | |
| 17 | Norway | 1 | 0.4% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 18 | Brazil | 1 | 0.4% | – | 1 | |
| 19 | Mexico | 1 | 0.4% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 20 | Taiwan | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 21 | Switzerland | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 22 | India | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 23 | Russia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 26 | |
| 24 | Poland | 0 | 0.0% | – | 5 | |
| 25 | Czechia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 |
Applicants
The largest applicants by international patent families, 2015 to 2024: across the world, then within each of the five countries with the most families in Air Strike & Interdiction. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
226 international families
BAE SYSTEMS PLC · United Kingdom
TUSAS TURK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI · Türkiye
TUSAS TUERK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI · Türkiye
RAYTHEON CO · United States
AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE GMBH · Germany
SAAB AB · Sweden
25
23
14
13
9
7
United States
45 international families
RAYTHEON CO
BAE SYS INF & ELECT SYS INTEG
ALLEY NICHOLAS ROBERT
ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INC
BRASHER MATTHEW GORDON
WILLIAMS JESSE OWEN
13
3
2
2
2
2
United Kingdom
40 international families
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
MBDA UK LTD
L3HARRIS RELEASE & INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS LTD
AIRBUS OPERATIONS LTD
BAE SYSTEMS
ALFORD IP LTD
25
5
3
2
2
1
Türkiye
29 international families
TUSAS TURK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI
TUSAS TUERK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI
TUSAS—TURK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI
GAZI UNIV REKTORLUGU
OSTIM TEKNIK UENIVERSITESI
OSTIM TEKNIK UNIV
23
14
4
2
2
2
Germany
23 international families
AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE GMBH
MBDA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
DIEHL DEFENCE GMBH & CO KG
AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GMBH
MBDA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH SCHROBENHAUSEN GERMANY
9
6
5
1
1
1
France
15 international families
ALKAN
ARESIA VALENTON
THALES SA
AIRBUS
AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
AIRBUS SAS
6
3
2
1
1
1
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Air Strike & Interdiction, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.
National Security
Control of the Air
15.5% shared · 100 families in both
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Türkiye
France
176
57
50
43
41
National Security
Battlefield Aviation & Uncrewed Systems
8.6% shared · 39 families in both
United States
South Korea
Germany
Israel
United Kingdom
68
29
23
23
22
National Security
Strategic Lift & Mobility
5.0% shared · 44 families in both
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
China
Spain
286
73
43
38
38
National Security
Land Fires
4.5% shared · 71 families in both
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
South Korea
357
232
127
113
93
National Security
Long-Range Strike
3.5% shared · 36 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Israel
278
159
88
77
44
National Security
Operational Sustainment & War Reserves
1.9% shared · 12 families in both
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
China
88
67
32
24
23
National Security
Integrated Air & Missile Defence
1.8% shared · 11 families in both
Germany
United States
Japan
Israel
United Kingdom
92
75
47
41
28
National Security
Counter-Uncrewed & Low-Altitude Defence
1.5% shared · 13 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Israel
156
135
72
56
50
Strategic Infrastructure
Military Bases & Installations
1.4% shared · 25 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Japan
353
218
111
100
84
Crosswalk
How Air Strike & Interdiction is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 8 Cooperative entries in all. A patent family counts when any of its codes, in either scheme and at any office, falls under one of them. Codes since retired are placed under the entries that replaced them.
| Entry | Title in the scheme | Why it is chosen | CPC codes | IPC codes | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B64D1/04 | Dropping, ejecting, or releasing articles the articles being explosive, e.g. bombs | Carrying and releasing bombs from aircraft | 2 | 2 | 5,471 |
| F42B25/00 | Fall bombs | Air-dropped bombs | 1 | 1 | 748 |
| F41G9/02 | Systems for controlling missiles or projectiles, not provided for elsewhere for bombing control | Bombing control systems | 2 | 1 | 329 |
| F41G3/24 | Bombsights | Bombsights | 1 | 1 | 435 |
| F41F3/06 | Rocket or torpedo launchers for rockets from aircraft | Launching rockets from aircraft | 2 | 2 | 1,471 |
CPC and IPC codes are the codes in use on patent documents, at any office, that fall under the entry. Documents is the larger of the two schemes' counts of documents carrying one of them. An entry with no IPC codes can be told apart only in the Cooperative scheme.
The Cooperative codes in use that count towards Air Strike & Interdiction: 8 codes on 7,736 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B64D1/04 | Dropping, ejecting, or releasing articles the articles being explosive, e.g. bombs | B64D1/04 | In the scheme | 2,511 |
| B64D1/06 | Bomb releasing; Bomb doors | B64D1/04 | In the scheme | 2,311 |
| F41F3/06 | Rocket or torpedo launchers for rockets from aircraft | F41F3/06 | In the scheme | 1,018 |
| F42B25/00 | Fall bombs | F42B25/00 | In the scheme | 681 |
| F41F3/065 | Rocket pods, i.e. detachable containers for launching a plurality of rockets | F41F3/06 | In the scheme | 453 |
| F41G3/24 | Bombsights | F41G3/24 | In the scheme | 433 |
| F41G9/02 | Systems for controlling missiles or projectiles, not provided for elsewhere for bombing control | F41G9/02 | In the scheme | 274 |
| F41G9/025 | Training or teaching apparatus therefor | F41G9/02 | In the scheme | 55 |