Boeing developing Phantom Ray fighter-sized combat UAV

Boeing's Airborne Laser project might be on shaky ground as the Pentagon reassess its budget, but that isn't stopping the company from pushing the flying-death market forward -- its latest project is the fighter jet-sized Phantom Ray UAV. The unmanned combat plane is being built using tech from the X-45 experimental UAV (pictured above) developed for the DARPA-funded Joint-Unmanned Combat Air System, and it should be taking the first of 10 scheduled test flights relatively soon -- the first is penciled in for December 2010, just a few months before Skynet becomes self-aware and destroys humanity as we know it.

[Via Giz Mag]

[rudolfo2 Posted May 11th 2009 12:55PM]

Ever heard a word PEACE,why is everyone pushing the war agenda ??? Because it's good business.

[(Unverified) Posted May 11th 2009 2:17PM]

Its either that or we are bound to destroy ourselves.
I'd rather have Skynet to kill us quick and painless instead of some crazy guy slowly slicing my throat for thinking different.

[(Unverified) Posted May 11th 2009 4:47PM]

Im not going to start an argument with the idealist/warmonger's . . . but my personal opinion is that all though this is a weapon of war, and should not be encouraged, It does benifit everyone! The technology used here will one day filter down to the people, and as history shows . . . wars give big push in the technology race.

So as much as im against war, im not against the technology it creates!

[Wwhat Posted May 11th 2009 9:00PM]

Actually commercial airlines can already automatically take off and land and fly and follow air corridors and go in holding patterns, so the new technology would be targeting people on the ground, and yeah that will filter down to the cops being obnoxious and suppressing your freedom more effectively in civilian settings, but is that positive?