How Unmanned Equipment Reshapes Modern Battlefields - A Brief Analysis of the New Characteristics of Practical Application of Unmanned Equipment in Recent Years. Compiled by Tang Qian and Wang Jinhua, in recent years, the development of unmanned equipment in armies around the world has been flourishing and is increasingly being used in practical combat, creating many classic examples of combat. Especially in recent years, in local wars and armed conflicts that have erupted worldwide, the practical application of unmanned combat equipment has achieved remarkable results, showing some new characteristics, which has attracted widespread attention from military forces of various countries. The functions are rapidly expanding, and the level of intelligence is rapidly improving. As an important new quality combat platform and a beneficial supplement to traditional weapons and equipment, unmanned equipment is accelerating its transformation from a role assigned to the battlefield in the past to a main battlefield role, and the level of intelligence is rapidly improving. The scale of application has significantly expanded. In the Afghanistan War, the US military only had a small number of drones involved. By the time of the Iraq War, the number of American drones participating in the war was more than three times that of the Afghanistan War. In the Naqa conflict, drones, as the main air strike force, were widely used on the battlefield. Over 75% of the attacks by the Azerbaijani army against the Armenian army were carried out by drones, which had a significant impact on the outcome of the conflict. Undertaking tasks is more diverse. Since the start of the Afghanistan War, unmanned aerial vehicles have been carrying out military strike missions in addition to continuing to undertake traditional combat tasks such as reconnaissance and surveillance. Nowadays, unmanned equipment can widely perform various combat tasks such as reconnaissance and surveillance, firepower guidance, damage assessment, mine clearance and explosion control, ground (sea) strikes, electronic warfare, etc. Recently, it has been widely used in information warfare and psychological warfare. The US military often uses drones to transmit real-time strike videos in the anti-terrorism war to demonstrate its military capabilities, and the extremist organization ISIS also frequently uses drones to capture, record, and "share" its battlefield victories. The level of intelligence is rapidly improving. In recent years, the application of unmanned equipment has increasingly demonstrated the rapid development of its intelligence level. In November 2020, Iranian scientist Fahrizad was assassinated by intelligent unmanned equipment, marking the first case of ground-based intelligent unmanned weapons being used to assassinate important targets. In the latest practice of warfare, foreign forces have used drones and unmanned boats to form formations for attacks. Unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned boats collaborate in real-time and dynamically based on changes in the battlefield, and carry out distributed autonomous attacks on targets according to task planning and target allocation issued by the command center. This has preliminarily practiced an intelligent empowered distributed collaborative operation. The ability has significantly increased, forming a certain asymmetric advantage. As a rising star in the equipment system, unmanned equipment gradually enhances its combat application ability, unleashing the combat advantages of emerging forces and forming asymmetric combat advantages under certain conditions. Show the asymmetric strike advantage of aerial targets. Unmanned combat platforms are limited by the battlefield environment, have strong penetration capabilities, and perform diverse tasks, forming a dimensionality reduction and strike advantage against traditional manned combat systems that lack effective countermeasures. On the first day of the Naqa conflict, the Azerbaijani army used TB-2 drones to destroy the SA-8A air defense system warning radar of the Armenian army, which was in normal working condition. This severely limited the combat capability of the Armenian army's air defense system as soon as the war began. In the latest war practice, both sides of the operation focus on using unmanned aerial vehicles to build collective warfare