Found a couple interesting articles on a site called DefenseTech. Both are about unmanned flying drones under development by the US military. The first one is a cute little 13 inch plane called the Wasp which can transmit a live video feed. The other one comes in three sizes and is referred to as an Organic Aerial Vehicle. It basically looks like a giant fan.

Enter Organic Aerial Vehicles, or OAVs. (”Organic,” in defense lingo, means operated by the smallest of fighting forces.) These are drones designed to take off like a helicopter, fly like a plane, and linger over a battlefield for long stretches — without orders from a flesh-and-blood master, and without a care for the weather.

Also, according to this article, DARPA - the Pentagon’s “mad scientist division” is working on the next generation of OAV’s which

should be able to network together, to form an autonomous swarm of scouts, sitting in the sky.

I’m especially creeped out by this because it correlates pretty closely to a dream I had in February about a futuristic American police state. Here’s a relevant snippet:

The police also had flying discs which they sent out after you. They were autonomous electronic devices which hovered and would track you as you ran. Once they were within range, they would fire an electric bolt at you to incapacitate you until officers arrived. The discs were called “temperplexes,” and they were all apparently controlled by larger motherships which flew higher and basically looked like UFO’s.

*Hopefully* they will figure out a way to link these autonomous swarms of drones with Sony’s new mind control technology, and the other recently publicized mind control technology out of Yale University. Then, instead of zapping you with electricity, they can just zap you with a ray which will naturally make you want to stop running and perform a citizen’s arrest on yourself.

[Also check out the currently deployed Raven unmanned aerial vehicle, and the town in Japan that got a robot police chief.]