Pentagon Wants DARPA Tech To Convert Military Aircraft To DronesBy Nicholas West The Pentagon has become interested in a new technology called ALIAS, developed by DARPA, which they believe will make it much easier and cheaper to produce drones in the battlespace. Rather than develop autonomous craft from the ground up, ALIAS is a kit which essentially removes a human pilot and inserts a robotic control mechanism that quickly connects to an aircrafts existing mechanical, electrical, and diagnostic systems. It is a technology that is now progressing from Phase 2 to Phase 3 with a partnership between DARPA and Lockheed Martin company, Sikorsky. In DARPAs press release from December 23, 2016, they note their accomplishments in Phase 2 thus far part of which can be seen in the video demonstration that follows and outline what is to come in Phase 3. ALIAS Phase 2 accomplishments included: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy have all expressed interest in ALIAS potential capabilities and are providing support to the program. These stakeholders and DARPA intend to continue working closely with the commercial and government aerospace community to identify potential transition opportunities for ALIAS technology. (Full press release) If implemented successfully, this development will add yet another component to the militarys ever growing arsenal of autonomous weapons that will create the future matrix of war envisioned for 2017 in the General Atomics video below. Hat tip: Vocativ Nicholas West writes for selfnewsPost.com. This article can be freely republished in part or in full with author attribution and source link. The only way to fight such a war, militarily, is to bomb the control center or capitol of the nation where these things come from. Id be firmly and forever against this as should every American. As long as this seems to be a deterrent to warmaking and warmongering there should be human pilots sitting in those seats. And if that makes it harder for the warmongers at the top to send these planes on their way to make a war then we all should be for even more humans in those seats. Which would equal even less war. Otherwise these warmongering bastards wont be able to stop their bad and learned behavior and theyll be even more warlike than they are now. Robotics in the future seems ill thought out to me and is going to make our lives in the future even less secure than it is now. Unless we can use it to rid ALL of mankind of these loathsome and sick sociopathic warmongers that so infest and infect our current neocon govt. That would be a positive in the future history of this country and equal to winning WWII and then the cold war. Ridding our country of the evil doers in the military/industrial complex. Just ponder that thought for a few minutes of Libertarian political pleasure Gee ..just like Dov Zacheims converted remote airliners that crashed into the twin towers!.isnt science awesome! 