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The Russian Uran-9 is powerfully armed with anti-tank missiles, an automatic cannon, and a machine gun. It can also be reconfigured to carry different weapons like surface-to-air missiles. Additionally, the unmanned vehicle is equipped with advanced optics and targeting systems including a laser warning system and thermal imaging.That would be pretty effective against tanks. However being a large vehicle infantry atgm squads can target it as well as uavs can find them easily. Unmanned smaller atgm platforms would be a trend in my opinion like this one having a much lower height profile and signature with 4 atgms and a machine gun for attacking infantry.Ugvs may have a range issue because of line of sight and terrain but quad drones in air can be used as comm relays for longer ranges in my opinion and ai waypoints+gps to get close to operation zone.
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Laser guided atgms diving at the last moment would probably work against hard kill active protection systems. Hard kills fire a straight unguided shots to a calculated t+1 position of the incoming missile. If for example laser/command guided missile comes straight but just at the end makes a random jump up-down maneuver when it is very close to tank then aps would have difficulty calculating and aiming to its t+1 position. Pop up-dive maneuver is already widely used in anti ship missiles to tackle down ships ciws.