What are the demon creatures released from the Abyss in Rev 9?

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I thought John may be trying to describe attack helicopters, but the text says they must not eat grass…or kill man?

Rev 9:3-6 – And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and
they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth. They
were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but
only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. The
locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them
for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a
scorpion. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they
will long to die, but death will escape them.