Pentagon to soon have new 'autonomous' drones
The US Defense Department will soon be equipped with new unmanned aerial vehicles that will operate more “autonomously” at a greater pace. - The Pentagon is reportedly investing heavily in the new smarter robotic weapons that will get rid of their remote operators on the ground to work virtually without human intervention and with minimum supervision. "Before they were blind, deaf and dumb. Now we're beginning to make them to see, hear and sense," says Mark Maybury, chief scientist for the US Air Force. The future drones will have a longer range, more powerful jet engines and a radar-evading stealth design. Using drones as a weapon started under George W. Bush but the trend escalated dramatically after Barak Obama took office with Pakistan, along with Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia, as the spotlight of the remote warfare.