As the White House boasts that the US is now using futuristic military weapons never seen before, details about America’s attempt to merge soldiers and machines have been uncovered.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) quietly published a report detailing how scientists were working on a new kind of brain-computer interface that would form a direct link between military personnel and weapons of war without requiring surgery.

DARPA has been called the Pentagon’s ‘idea factory’ because of its documented role in creating futuristic tech, such as the Internet, GPS and stealth technology.

This program, which the agency posted on its public website and listed as ‘complete,’ was geared specifically for ‘able-bodied service members’ with the goal of giving them direct mind control over military drones and other national security tools.

Called the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program, DARPA said this breakthrough would provide the military with a ‘portable’ device that would read the user’s brain signals and also send messages from the drone back to the brain.

However, the project, announced in 2018, appeared to mysteriously go silent after reaching the third and final stage of development, which involved testing the device on real people.

Since July 2023, there has been no mention of what happened, whether the devices were successful or if soldiers are currently using the technology to control military aircraft with their minds.

The discovery comes as the US confirmed it had used futuristic ‘sonic weapons’ in the raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and a secret CIA tool to help locate an American pilot shot down over Iran by his heartbeat alone.

President Donald Trump himself boasted about the technological superiority of the American military during his second term in office, specifically during the conflicts in Venezuela and Iran.

On January 20, Trump bragged: ‘We have weapons nobody else knows about. And, I say it’s probably good not to talk about it, but we have some amazing weapons.’

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