7 awesome technologies that will soon make armies fight like Marvel superheroes

Military and private companies around the world are developing new technologies that transform the military into a super-soldier.

The Russian military is developing motorized body armor that appears to belong to Boba Fett from Star Wars. And the hoverboard is not just something from Back to the Future, it is a real invention that Franchi Zapata of France successfully used to go to the English Channel this week.

The Russian military, as well as the US, France, and the UK, are all developing futuristic tech that feels like something straight out of a Marvel blockbuster. But these technologies are not far off in the future; many are already in the testing stages - or in use on the battlefield.

Read on to see some of the wildest futuristic war techs.

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1. A high hover flight of the French inventor Franchi Zapata took place this year. French President Emmanuel Macron was so enamored that he tweeted about it, suggesting that the French military might use them in battle one day.

2. The US Army is in the final stages of testing its Enhanced Night Vision Goggle Binoculars (ENVG-B), which will allow soldiers to shoot accurately from the hip and into corners. It also provides improved situational awareness, thermal imaging, and better depth perception.

3. The FLIR Black Hornet III is a pocket-sized drone that will perform reconnaissance, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions in combat. The combat team of the 3rd Brigade, the 82nd Airborne Division, already has drones that come in pairs - one for day and one for night vision. Drones can fit on a soldier's belt. The army hopes to equip every soldier with drones in the future.

4. The Russian infantry may soon be wearing the Ratnik-3 exoskeleton armor, which reportedly allows soldiers to fire a machine gun with one hand. It has built-in electric motors - an improvement over the Ratnik-2 version, which was not motorized. This is in testing.

5. This week, former Royal Marine inventor Richard Browning tested his jet suit over the English Channel, using a five-turbine suit to navigate between Royal Navy boats with ease.

6. The US Army is developing a 50-kilowatt laser cannon, a multipurpose high-energy laser (MMHEL), to be installed on Stryker combat vehicles. It is designed to fire drones and explosives from the sky, and the army plans to deploy it in the next four years.

7. The US Army is testing glasses that use facial recognition, as well as technology that translates written words, road signs. The goggles can even project visual data from drones. The Integrated Imaging System (IVAS) is a modified Microsoft HoloLens technology that is expected to begin widespread use in the mid-2020s.