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According to a study performed by the Dept of Military Studies at Swedish Defense University while examining impacts of future technologies: cognitive radar was found to have significant future military uses. 5g cellular technology was found to be moderate in its effect on military efficiency.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09512748.2019.1676299?journalCode=rpre20
One if Washingtons concerns moving forward is competing with the artificially intelligent technology that the Chinese uses in their military operations. The United States has done research on microchips, semiconductors, big-data analytics, and 5G data transmission networks as future technologies to implement.
https://www.nature.com/news/military-technology-laser-weapons-get-real-1.17613
Modern military investments also include research in to laser weapons. The United States Navy currently implements laser technology on its warships to target small enemy watercraft. The Israeli government currently utilizes laser defense technology that can hinder the effectiveness of enemy drones, small calibre rockets, and small ships by transferring large amounts of heat energy to the device via a fiber optic laser. Future laser technologies aim at capabilities much larger, like disabling larger machinery at further distances.
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/science/article/pii/S0034361715005925 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.repl.2015.08.048)
Companies like DARPA are committed to materials research for military and aircraft purposes. The goal of this research is to find stronger, safer, more cost effective materials for military machinery such as automotive or aircraft parts.
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/science/article/pii/S0040162516305376 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.062)
“As can be seen the second most discussed issue is “Information Warfare” and the third one is the “Network-Centric Warfare” concept. Having superior power to use, manage, and control information networks is becoming an important subject when dealing with insurgency.” “Computers and sensors had expanded the soldiers' view of the battlefield and increased the ability of command and control capabilities. By integrating precision-guidance munitions into the network of command and control systems, the locate-track-target-fire chain was completed.” In the cluster of research regarding weapon technology the most focused research falls on defense missile and guidance systems, which has become increasingly more reliant on new technologies.
https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/science/article/pii/S0040162518304438 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.08.001)
This article finds that military trends are very contingent upon the matter of warfare at hand. For example, WW1 developments greatly differ from WW2 developments not only because of the changing technology landscape but also because of the nature of the war being fought. The type of war we fight today is very different than the ones fought in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, etc.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26326478?pq-origsite=summon&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (https://www.jstor.org/stable/26326478)
Transition to hybrid warfare has extended beyond the traditional battlefield and calls for a control of information. Primary war fighting zones are now cyber space, information environments, and airspace. New warfare includes, network attacks, media analysis, and media/ grass-roots campaigns on medias such as blog posts.
Research shows that there will increased reliance on autonomous beings (drones, other aircraft, vehicles, and other machinery) in future warfighting. This in turn will minimize human loss of life in future conflicts. Mobility robots: Enter dangerous or difficult scenarios/ locations to mitigate human casualties. “Gap crossing (including wet and dry gaps); Countermine operations; Counter obstacle operations; Routes (developing and improving routes for tactical movement); Explosive threat management (ETM); Route clearance (RC); Area clearance (AC); Military search (MS).
Robotic and autonomous robotics will greatly enhance troop mobility in situations involving challenges like the ones above^
https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/doi/full/10.1002/rob.21843 ( ? )
Research also includes the implementation of rescue robots: machinery capable of extracting casualties from dangerous or life threatening situations. Robots such as these greatly rely on mobility capabilities and must be able to traverse various and untraditional landscapes/ terrain.
European research trends in military technology focus on the following categories: “-Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) -Search and Rescue -Combat Support -Transportation -Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) -Mine Clearance -Firefighting” "Airborne Robots (further split into MALE Military Drones, HALE Military Drones, Tactical Drones) Land Robots (further categorized into Wheeled Robots, Tracked Robots, Legged Robots, Wearable Robots) -Marine Robots (further segmented as Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV))”
Plan to write paragraph that adds to the FUTURE portion of the article located at the bottom. My section will include information from the listed sources and include information on future trends, military investments, concept technologies, and a general overview of what kind of technology will be used in warfare in the future.
Future Technologies Wikipedia
Current militaries continue to invest in new technologies for the future[1]. Such technologies include cognitive radar , 5g cellular networks[2], microchips, semiconductors, and large scale analytic engines[3].
Additionally, many militaries seek to improve current laser technology. For example, Israeli Defense Forces utilize laser technology to disable small enemy machinery, but seek to move to more large scale capabilities in the coming years[4].
Militaries across the world continue to perform research on autonomous technologies which allow for increased troop mobility or replacement of live soldiers[5]. Autonomous vehicles and robots are expected to play a role in future conflicts [5]; This has the potential to decrease loss of life in future warfare.
Todays hybrid style of warfare also calls for investments in information technologies. Increased reliance on computer systems has incentivized nations to push for increased efforts at managing large scale networks and having access to large scale data[6].
New strategies of cyber and hybrid warfare includes, network attacks, media analysis, and media/ grass-roots campaigns on medias such as blog posts[7]
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- ^ Lundmark, Martin; Andersson, Kent; Bull, Peter; Dansarie, Marcus (2019). Technology Forecast 2019 – Military Utility of Future Technologies : A report from seminars at the Swedish Defence University’s (SEDU) Military Technology Division. Försvarshögskolan (FHS).
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- ^ Extance, Andy (2015-05-28). "Military technology: Laser weapons get real". Nature News. 521 (7553): 408. doi:10.1038/521408a.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Burmaoglu, Serhat; Sarıtas, Ozcan (2017-03-01). "Changing characteristics of warfare and the future of Military R&D". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 116: 151–161. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2016.10.062. ISSN 0040-1625.
- ^ Danyk, Yuriy; Maliarchuk, Tamara; Briggs, Chad (2017). "Hybrid War: High-tech, Information and Cyber Conflicts". Connections. 16 (2): 5–24. ISSN 1812-1098.