This paper probes into the development of celestial navigation technique and its related theories or methods in the recent 30 years, It is introduced the attentions which the major military countries of the world has paid on celestial navigation technique. It is also discussed obout the conspicuous superiority of celestial navigation technique in the background of navigation war. The main contents are: (1) The history and present situation of celestial navigation equipment, (2) new achievements of celestial navigation theory, (3) attitudes towards celestial navigation of major military countries, (4) superiority of celestial navigation, (5) key technique to the automation of celestial navigation and (6) developing tendency of  automatic celestial navigation technique.