Technological progress constantly, weapons development and military in the field of wave upon wave of change, the future battlefield and will be how to earth? Some assumptions, the future will outbreak of the war that can’t see both sides of the combat troops on the battlefield, aircraft, tanks and artillery were whirling in the sky fly, the hornets kind of miniature unmanned aerial vehicles and hordes of ants on the ground kind of miniature robot forces that war is like magic in Lilliput war, when ordinary people unable to detect the outcome has been decided.
Along with the development of the advanced technology, the miniature war is a step by step. With this new technology, the future will appear to be completely different from the past, the new weapons, and thus lead to a huge change in the form of war. The United States Rand Co and Defense Research Institute of technology for the future of the full study of the view that nanotechnology will be the key technology in the future of the revolution in the field of military operations. Can say, the dawn of a new military revolution is quietly over the horizon, between the in a flash of sometime in the future to present an unheard of a new kind of war in front of the world.
The birth of nano weapons and a lot of use in the future, will make a radical change in the traditional mode of operation, the war will be a huge turning point, into a new orbit. The transparency of nano war greatly increased. In nano battlefield, for the weak side, from space to air, to the ground, under layers of closely, the nanoscale reconnaissance and surveillance network, has almost no secret insurable. The strong side but the other party’s actions in their own eyes, completely transparent”. This will make the process and outcome of the war more transparent, who also can not be a joke in front of the high-tech war. On the one hand, it has greatly enhanced the deterrence of war, but on the other hand, it will also stimulate the country to develop a more intense competition for the advantages of nanotechnology.
Nano war consumption less. The traditional war, the huge amount of weapons and equipment reserve loss is a lot of spending; the implementation of the war in the course of a huge, just 42 days of the Gulf War, the cost of up to $about 60000000000, even the United States, such as super powers are difficult to bear. While the nano war is different, although the investment may be huge, the early technological development, once the war is very small. On the one hand, nanotechnology with fewer resources, relatively low cost, even in large doses, but also far less likely to a huge waste of conventional war. On the other hand, the transparency of nano war, war strength will be relatively limited. As a result, expensive monster types of vessels, aircraft, tanks, artillery and other in the future may have a tendency to slump, nano war will become full low consumption of the war.
In the face of the new style of the war, the world’s major countries are trying to seize the new century 20 to 30 years, to seize the next round of technological revolution and military reform.