With the rapid development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data as well as their extensive penetration into the military field, the application field of intelligent unmanned equipment continues to expand. Its spectrum system is gradually improved, and its combat capacity is significantly enhanced, which has become a new qualitative force for the development of major military powers worldwide. Firstly, the current situation of unmanned equipment technology of major military powers from three aspects of combat system, system platform and support technology is analyzed and summarized in this paper. On this basis, the development trend of unmanned equipment technology is studied and judged. It is pointed out that the unmanned equipment technology presents the overall development pattern of system, series and scale, and it is developing towards the direction of clustering, actual combat and independent intelligent decision-making. Based on the advanced experience of foreign troops and the needs of military preparation, the basic ideas, main principles and specific measures for the development of unmanned equipment technology of our armed forces are proposed in this paper to actively explore the development path of unmanned equipment technology suitable for the military characteristics.