Rats flying fighter jets

This article is scoring full points on all three of the “cool”, “scary” and “weird” scales. Check this out: [Somewhere in Florida, 25,000 disembodied rat neurons are thinking about flying an F-22\.](http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65438,00.html)  There are rats. Flying fighter jets. 

Granted, they’re simulated fighter jets, but how difficult would it be to adapt these rat neurons to flying real fighter jets? What will this lead to? Will rats go on bombing missions over areas where there is a high cat population? Are cheese factories going to be the only safe places on the planet?