Hand-held helicopter drones

Rico's friend Kelley forwards this Yahoo article, in remembrance of their cartoon series Bugs, created when Rico worked for Electronic Warfare magazine back in the 1970s:

British soldiers in Afghanistan have been issued with surveillance drones so small they can fit in the palm of a man's hand. The Scandinavian-designed Black Hornet Nano weighs as little as sixteen grams (roughly half an ounce), the same as a finch. The four-inch-long helicopter is fitted with a tiny camera which relays still images and video to a remote terminal.
"We used it to look for insurgent firing points and check out exposed areas of the ground before crossing, which is a real asset," said Sergeant Christopher Petherbridge, with Britain's Brigade Reconnaissance Force. In a statement, he called the Hornet easy to operate and said it offered "amazing capability to the guys on the ground".
The military said that the toy-like Hornet is capable of flying even in windy conditions. It said the Hornet was developed by Norway's Prox Dynamics AS as part of a twenty-million-pound (thirty-one million dollar) contract for 160 units with southern England's Marlborough Communications Ltd.
Drones of all shapes and sizes have rapidly become a mainstay of US, British, and other nations' military operations around the world. Late last year the UK said it was doubling the size of its armed drone fleet in Afghanistan to ten, with the purchase of a new batch of Reapers.

Rico says that, when we came up with Bugs, it was considered the most outlandish (if not ridiculous) science fiction by all the 'experts' in the field...