Military
| Emerging technology | Status | Potentially marginalized technologies | Potential applications | Related articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airborne laser | Research and development, trials | Missile defense | Tracking and destruction of tactical ballistic missiles | Advanced Tactical Laser, High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System |
| Antimatter weapon | Theory | Nuclear weapons | ||
| Caseless ammunition | Field tests and some niche markets | Cartridges | ||
| Directed energy weapon | Research, development, some prototypes | Firearms | Warfare | |
| Electrolaser | Research and development | Taser | ||
| Electromagnetic weapons | Research and development | Firearms | Warfare | Coilgun, Railgun |
| Electrothermal-chemical technology | Research and development | Conventional ammunition | Tank, artillery, and close-in weapon systems | |
| Particle beam weapon | Research and development | Firearms | Warfare | |
| Plasma weapon | Research | |||
| Pure fusion weapon | Theory | |||
| Sonic weapon | Research and development | |||
| Stealth technology | Research and development | Camouflage | Electronic countermeasures | Plasma stealth, Stealth aircraft, Radar-absorbent material |
| Vortex ring gun | Research and development | tear gas | Crowd control |
Read more about this topic: List Of Emerging Technologies
Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
—Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)