Abstract: The airborne photoelectronic systems on drones developed by Israel, United States of America, Russia and the countries in West Europe,and the new technologies,such as highprecision stabilized sighting systems, US Generation Ⅳ electrooptical camera, advanced FLIR systems and multispectral information compression/transmission technology,are introduced in this paper. It will be of a certain value to the reference for designing a new generation airborne photoelectronic system for our own country.