Military using mini copters with cameras

This sounds pretty neat, a robot copter with a camera a soldier can carry around, til you hear that they paid 31 mill for 160 of them.

http://hackaday.com/2013/02/05/military-steals-idea-of-anyone-who-ever-tied-a-cellphone-camera-to-quadcopter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29