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by throwawayffffas 1528 days ago
The gist of the article which I agree a lot seems to be.

Nothing has significantly changed since the 80s-90s, ATGMs have gotten better but they were still a huge problem back then and the solution seems to be the same, better recon, more artillery.

Drones don't represent something new but really precision strikes at a discount, capabilities only available to major powers once are now "buy off the shelf".

The TB-2 with a couple of MAM missiles does the same job as an f4 with a couple of walleyes.

The only difference being the f4 cost 2 million dollars in 1965 while the TB-2 costs 2 million dollars now.

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Not even $2M. Have you seen the footage of the UA/TDF using civilian quadrotor drones to drop anti-tank hand grenades on vehicles? As long as the radio spectrum is open, these type of attacks will be very hard to stop.

  anti-tank hand grenades  are obsolete. 
  The only use is to somehow get them to detonate under the tank and pray it will do something. 
  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_grenade At best they are used not against tanks but against light armored vehicles like "Humvees, Strykers and MRAPs " without any armor upgrades
Tell that to the tanks being destroyed as I described. These drones are dropping RKG-1600 grenades on to the top of Russia's top tanks and destroying them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMWHTVLWo2E

Wikipedia is not always a good source for military information, FYI...

https://cat-uxo.com/explosive-hazards/grenades/rkg-1600-hand...