BAE Systems

BAE Systems appears in roughly 3 monitored articles per day as of August 19, 2026. Mentions are up 260.0% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.36 — mildly negative.

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational aerospace, arms and information security company, based in London. It is the largest manufacturer in Britain as of 2017. It is the largest defence contractor in Europe and the sixth largest in the world based on applicable 2024 revenues. Its largest operations are in the United Kingdom and in the United States, where its BAE Systems Inc. subsidiary is one of the six largest suppliers to the US Department of Defense. Its next biggest markets are Saudi Arabia, then Australia; other major markets include Canada, Japan, India, Turkey, Qatar, Oman and Sweden. The company was formed on 30 November 1999 by the £7.7 billion purchase of and merger of Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), the defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc (GEC), with British Aerospace, an aircraft, munitions and naval systems manufacturer.

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Wikidata

Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
3
mentioning this entity
Week over week
+260.0%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.36
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

BAE Systems mentions per day: 60 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-190.0050.0100May 28Jun 26Jul 11Jul 21Jul 31Aug 10Aug 19

Coverage tone, last 90 days

BAE Systems coverage tone: 60 days, latest tone -1.36 on 2026-08-19+50-5May 28Jun 26Jul 11Jul 21Jul 31Aug 10Aug 19

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for BAE Systems: 89 days, latest 1449.00 on 2026-08-180.0012502500May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).