Concepts of fire control,fire control technology and fire control system are discussed.The development trend of aviation fire control system is given by reviewing its history.Analysis is made to the influences of information age and network centric warfare on fire control,and the new conditions which the fire control is confronted with,are investigated.Characteristics of fire control in the information age are figured out,and new methods and new tools adopted in new-generation fire control system research and development are presented in the end.