. . . and it’s likely there’ll be one in your sky, too — if not now, then soon:

In June, members of the Libyan National Transition Council were “searching the Web,” the New York Times reports, where they found information about a surveillance drone — “essentially a tiny, four-rotor helicopter dangling a pod carrying stabilized-image day- and night-vision cameras”— made by Aeryon Labs of Waterloo, Ontario.

That’s how Charles Barlow, a former Canadian army officer who previously served with the United Nations in Syria, found himself on a boat to Misrata, Libya, in July, delivering a miniature surveillance drone to the rebels.

. . . Unlike the Predator drones the United States flies over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere, which are equipped with sophisticated weapons systems that can strike suspected terrorist hideouts, the Scout miniature unmanned aerial drone has no weapons system. It also does not require an airfield to take off; it can be launched from, say, the top of a car. It is basically a flying, pilotless camera. It weighs about 3 pounds. It can also only fly about 2 miles.

The cost? About $100,000 to $200,000, Barlow said, “but it depends a lot” on the situation, he added, explaining that mitigating factors include how quickly the customer needs the device, how many they’re buying, and whether it’s a drone that has thermal cameras, which are able to see at night.

The company’s product video also claims the Scout has only four moving parts.