Outline of Military Science and Technology - Types of Military Technology

Types of Military Technology

• Armour – protective clothing intended to defend its wearer from intentional harm in combat and military engagements, typically associated with soldiers
• Artillery – large caliber weapons firing projectiles one at a time. Artillery pieces are crew serviced weapons that provide direct or indirect trajectories for the shell
  • Medieval siege weaponry
• Fortifications – military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare–
• Martial arts – also known as fighting systems, martial arts are bodies of codified practices or traditions of training for unarmed and armed combat, usually without the use of guns and other modern weapons–
• Mêlée – hand-to-hand combat or mano-a-mano; weapons commonly used in mêlée include swords, clubs, spears, axes, or fists: almost any tool with which one can hit someone else
• Military vehicles – are land combat or transportation vehicles, excluding rail-based, which are designed for or in significant use by military forces
  • Armoured fighting vehicle
  • Armoured personnel carrier
  • Tank
• Military aviation and military aircraft – Military aviation includes any use of aircraft by a country's military, including such areas as transport, training, disaster relief, border patrol, search and rescue, surveillance, surveying, peacekeeping, and (very rarely) aerial warfare
• Military communications – the transmission medium that links military components on the battlefield
  • Communications
  • Military engineer
• Military robots – autonomous or remote-controlled devices designed for military applications
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles
  • Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
• Military thought and planning – military tactics, strategy, and doctrine
  • Military doctrine – level of military planning between national strategy and unit-level
  • Military strategy – collective name for planning the conduct of warfare
  • Military tactics – collective name for methods of engaging and defeating an enemy in battle
• Military unit – an organization within an armed force. It may consist of any number of soldiers, ships, vehicles, or aircraft. Armies, navies, and air forces, are organised hierarchically into groups of various sizes for functional, tactical and administrative purposes
  • Military rank
  • Comparative military ranks
• Munitions – often defined as a synonym for ammunition. A slightly broader definition would include bombs, missiles, warheads, and mines
  • Bullet
  • Missile
  • Bomb
  • Mine
    • Landmine
    • Naval mine
• Naval warfare – combat in and on seas and oceans
  • Navy
  • Naval ship
  • Submarine
• Small arms and firearms – a firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant