antitak weapons have been tastically successful. But i think the other lesson is we're seeing weapons that haven't had huge amounts of use being used in experimental ways. And i would point to loitering munitions, what you might call camecasi dromes. These are drones that go up in the air, hover around, and of firing a missile, they themselves plough into the tank or the artillery piece in question.
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