With advantages of great strength, hardness, thermal stability, durability and conductivity, carbon fibers are widely applied in thermal protection, shock positioning and hole-making technologies. Meantime, much research has been conducted over the application of carbon fibers in interference and energetic materials. The research achievements of carbon fibers being applied in interference materials such as infrared, radar, and smoke curtain as well as energetic materials such as propellant and explosives are introduced, which provides references for in-depth research of the application of carbon fibers and their composite materials in interference and energetic materials.