Old news. DARPA, CIA, etc. were known to be developing these in the '70s. It seems like they might be getting somewhere, as they've been observed in the 'wild' over two years ago. From the article: "I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But I mean, those are not insects." Out in the crowd, Bernard Crane saw them, too. "I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "They were large for dragonflies. I thought, 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' " Three people at the D.C. event independently described a row of spheres, the size of small berries, attached along the tails of the big dragonflies -- an accoutrement that Louton could not explain. And all reported seeing at least three maneuvering in unison.

Hilarious, I mean, they sell kids this technology in malls and I could design a lot of the "AI" myself. You simply map the area, and throw in a bunch of conditional statements commanding the small helicopter toy with a mounted camera to change direction based on them. Wow, do you really believe the US Government is going to reveal the true innovation? Heck no! That stuff is classified, the USA has a death star in orbit right now and will incinerate any real threats I am sure.

It's smarter to insert small remote cameras into false rocks and infiltrate them into areas you want to surveil. They can be powered by nuclear batteries.

i think that is a good idea

The question is not the control system or the optics.... The only real question is the power source. Why isn't this addressed?