Battlefield role
Persistent scouting and target-finding for precision strikes; the backbone of information warfare.
Recon drones industrialize scouting. What scout cavalry did once — a glimpse, at risk, then home — drones do continuously and cheaply, turning enemy movement into a live feed and every hidden weakness into a target.
EMP disruption is the built-in counterweight: an opponent invested in electronic countermeasures can switch off your eyes at the worst moment. The Advanced Modern Age is a fight over who gets to keep seeing.