Observers, however, are not supposed to crash into things. There's two basic jobs in the RA: Firing big lumps of exploding metal at things, and identifying the position and nature of the things. For the latter, all kinds of things have been used, from hole in the ground to balloons and aircraft.
In a real war the life of a drone would, I suspect, be extremely short. Landing could be just something that the few that survive the first mission need to do.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
