Boeing developing Phantom Ray fighter-sized combat UAV
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 10th 2009 8:36AM
posted May 10th 2009 8:36AM
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No pew pew?
// sorry to use your comment, but I just wanted to show the real picture to everyone:
the picture above is from the X45-A, while the Phantom Ray is being based on the larger X45-C. Here's a sweet image of what the Phantom Ray should look like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airshowfan-dot-com--by-Bernardo-Malfitano--Image-of-X45C-mockup-at-Nellis-05.jpg
How many YEARS have we already known about the X-45 from boeing? This isn't new at all...
WWIII will be fought with Nukes and Video Game Controllers....
Great, more war toys to spend our money on.
I love how these are used to kill and destroy, yet they always use these kind of "happy" colors for them.
White?
Just imagine how people will feel when their families and villages are killed by robots.
Even if you managed to shoot one down, you have only scored a minor victory that will taste bitter.
White and blue. Well, white is not a color(depending on what school you belong to on the subject, for this reply, I'll agree with it), and blue primarily is associated with being sad.
I can see where you tried to be funny... but it failed.
White is often used with composite materials to delay sun-caused damage.
Plus it's a nice happy color.
white for peace...
@Agent .25i:
Light and Color are two different entities that interact with one another. A color can be thought of as the tendency for a material to absorb certain wavelengths of the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, or simply light. The color black is the presence of all colors thereby absorbing all visible wavelengths and reflecting none. The color white is the absence of all color thereby absorbing none of the visible wavelengths and reflecting all. For light, black is the absence and white is the presence of all visible wavelengths.
Therefore, only one 'school of thought' exists in regards to color and light.
Thank you and good day.
~JB
Not to drag on the late commenting, but:
@egghead:
"The color white is the absence of all color."
If you do not immediately see how this sentence (which you wrote) creates a dichotomy of thought on the semantics of "color", you should count to ten and then read it three times.
If that doesn't work, replace the word "color" with "liquid" and the word "white" with "water", and then try again.
The whole Skynet thing has been a nice internet joke for a long time, but I have to say it is getting dangerously close.
Just last month a UCAV had it's first kill, and now their making stealth UCAV's.
I suppose a bonus is it's less soldiers out on the battlefield, though it's a bit 'unfair' to the side that hasn't got any robots to fight on it's behalf.
Last I checked, the idea of war IS to have an advantage?
You don't know the least of it. The next generation of these UAVs will have nuclear engines so they can remain airborne for months at a time. We'll be able to create a constant blanket of airborne surveillance and weapons delivery. God save our enemies.
I have to agree with you.
I don't know if the GOV always had the intention to make unmanned robot controlled equipment with science fiction reporting on the situation, or if science fiction led science to the situation we're entering, but this is starting to look ominously like the scary stories.
Frightening, the petulent child can fry your ass and that of all of humanity, if it chooses. :o
I feel ya.... Let's scrap this project and switch to something a little more fair, maybe remastering camel-mounted combat.
They can't ban us from the servers...this is real life. Don't worry so much about our enemies, rest assured, they can kill us just fine.
also...not getting the color comment either, but maybe i'm missing the mattel logo.
Currently you can be killed by a a trained soldier who's had years of experience, and if your just as good you can take him out too.
Now what this whole robot combatant stuff is leading too is a robot that can calculate the trajectory of a bullet good enough to hit a fly form 1000ft. And on top of that the guy that pulled the trigger is on the other side of the world. So even if you took out the sniper-bot all you need is to build another one n deploy it, and that doesn't take 9 month's to build n 21 years to code it.
Thankfully AI UCAVs n soldiers are against Geneva convention, so none of the nations that can make AI soldiers will think twice before letting them loose on the battlefield.
Sooner or later the opposition will find a way to jam or take control of the signals being sent to UAV's like this. The technical infomation will be on one of those P2P sites no doubt.
hmm, i just got home from college, and found a wifi network called "SKYNET." should i be worried?
Clearly using this on countries that don't have them will completely excuse them for subsequently using terrorism as a reply, seems simple and straightforward.
UCAV had its first kill?? Where and when? I didn't think there was a real UCAV even in military use yet... Not to mention aren't they supposed to for air-to-air combat whereas the UAVs do the whole air-to-ground terrorist bombing thing?
No, it's not fair - of course fighting fair is equated to brainwashing some teenage person with the virtues of strapping a bomb to your chest and sneaking into a crowd of people... yeah, that works.
UNFAIR?
That's putting it mildly.
Keep in mind, most of the 3rd world countries getting bombed don't even have anti-air defenses or a marginally effective air force.
The simple FACT is: the country with more money (or moreFIAT money and debt) can afford to enslave and dominate the world)
Without terrorism and asymetrical warfare, these poor folks wouldn't have any possibility of fighting back.
I can respect them for being willing to give their lives to wound their oppressor despite how pathetic and hopeless victory is.
Ok, so this quantum guy is a lunatic. Nuff said.
When we use our advantages, such as our brains to fight back and he classifies us evil. When these POS ignorant smelly "terrorists" use their advantage, taking a bath, shaving and blending in with normal people while they have a bomb strapped to their body in order to blend and kill innocents, that is OK????
Each fights with the advantages given them.
You are just one of those liberal politically correct nitwits. Hopefully Obama will find a nice home for those Gitmo freedom fighters right next door to you.
Funny how the definition of "liberal" is different between USA and Canada...
I agree completely with Quantum, and I could not disagree more with Priaptor. Telling other nations how to live is like telling your neighbor how to live... neither likes it. We all understand that we believe we know the ideal way life should be lived, but the conversation should not always be at the end of a gun. Notwithstanding that we could be very wrong.
Where's the iPhone app to control it? Is it free, cause if its $1.99 I'm waiting for a drop.
kwikit: when did EITHER of them even talk about telling your neighbor/other country what to do? try to post something that's relevant to the discussion.
and yeah quantum you're going to respect them for intentionally blowing up innocent women and children?
Hey Priaptor23, little question about that terrorist for you: are you in the army? I assume not, so do you claim to be one of those that are 'innocent' not being in the army? When you actively support making such weapons and support your government blasting people away in foreign places with them you aren't that innocent anymore are you now? Or are you claiming that when you select a leader and he starts wars (and you re-elect him maybe even) that you have 0% responsibility and are completely innocent? And what if you not only vote those politicians in but also work for a company that fabricates these things or components of them? Are you innocent? What if you raised some kids to go do that and kill people? Are you innocent? Is a mob boss innocent if he doesn't kill people with his own hands?
WWHAT, that is the most tortuous nonsensical reply I have read today. Are you saying that civilians, in their OWN country who frequent a theater, cafe, outdoor event are guilty and should be blown up and killed because their governments (those that they voted into office) make weapons to protect them from Islamic pussies who dress up as civilians hiding their bombs while detonating bombs to kill these noncombatants?
I am guilty as you charge. Yes I am guilty of supporting my government making weapons to kill this stinking venomous crew in any way possible. Yes I am guilty of wanting my country to free us of the constraints these Islamic lunatics have imposed for the sake of Allah.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
I'm saying that if some islamic nutter hurts me or people I know during an attack I'll be not just cursing him/her but also my idiotic government, that's what I am saying.
I think our cops andsoforth have to try to prevent it, but I don't think I can claim oh we are all 100% innocent as our army's bombers killed that guy's relatives after which he came to get payback and how outrageous of him to come for innocent us.
And I don't even think my vote matters incidentally since I'm not that mainstream.
I also think that all these islamic women NOT raising their kids and even encouraging them to just kill and be abusive to women and people with other views aren't 100% innocent, not that they should be murdered, but come on let's not be so primitive that we can only see black and white and behave like it's the middle ages, we all are part of the machinery in some way.
Why can't i comment?
Dammit.
I...I don't know what to say here...
You can blame Engadget's crappy commenting system.
Or is it your crappy commenting abilities?
-jp
First flight should be to Iran and drop a few well placed nucs. Second "test" flight should be to Pakistan and take out the Taliban. Third test flight.........you get the picture.
Yes I do.
You're an idiot.
No stryker, you are the idiot.
Ah what a better world for human habitation without these wonderful people who are threatening your existence.
Capitulation has and never will work. Every example has led to catastrophe.
But since Americans don't have the balls to do it, I am sure Netanyahu does so the I give Iran 6 months.
Priaptor. You sir, are the idiot.
For someone to go off saying that we should drop nuclear devices all over the place and misspell the word "NUKE"(s)?!? FFS man.
Unless a "nuc" is something that only the enlightened individuals of this world (like yourself) have the privilege of knowing about.
So there are some people over "there" that don't like "us".
So you start hating on *all* of "them". "They" see you and think "we" are...as you said, threatening their existence.
And then more of them start hating "us". This is a constantly accelerating vicious circle.
And YOU are part of the problem.
Jackass.
Wow man, don't know when to shut up do you?
"those who know how to spell Nuclear use Nucs as the real term." Priaptor
Google the "word" "nucs" and then Google the work "nuke". Then come back here and try again. Moron.
Also, Im not an American, noob.
OK secret agent. You are not an American. Pump that chest and be proud to be one of "those" dependent on our country.
As to "googling" the term nucs versus Nukes, what are you saying. That slang catches on? No kidding. I believe that is how Punjabs became the slang for towel heads that became the slang for Arabs-same morons like you that decided to use slang terms NUKE instead of Nucs.
You, sir, are an imbecile.
three dots
as a north-Americana I'm ashamed I'm on the same focking continent as you domb-asss. If you knew anything about history then you would know that violence breads one single thing VIOLENCE. Retaard. grow some fuUcking balLls and use you're brain instead of just thinking of fuUcking shIit up. Be a fUucking man (or women) and use you're brain instead of taking the easy way out. you fUucking pUussy.
Did they not see Stealth? One, it was a bad movie. Jamie Foxx called in that role. Second, the Matthew McConaughey look alike Kept having lines that allowed his mouth to open. Third, Jessica Alba remained clothed, and finally, the UAV went nutso.
I'd like to see Metalica go after this guy for downloading their songs.