The whole anti-tank missile thing is far from new, the Israeli army used US dragons to fend off invading tank battalions during one of the $day wars. The only r

The whole anti-tank missile thing is far from new, the Israeli army used US dragons to fend off invading tank battalions during one of the $day wars. The only real difference is the dragon was wire guided while the newer ones are fire and forget (presumably). And the type of small unit tactics the Ukrainians are using is pretty much all we trained on when I was in the 82nd Airborne at the tail end of the Cold War. Platoon/company level harassing actions was our bread and butter, light infantry isn’t well equipped to slug it out in open battle with armored units so hit and run is the name of the game. Once the first gulf war rolled around they decided we needed to adapt our tactics and, as they say, you always train for the last war… On a weird side note on my last trip over to Iraq as a civilian contractor we rolled through a sizable ambush and I couldn’t help but think my old platoon from the 82nd would have utterly destroyed our convoy but the attackers only managed to disable one vehicle with an RPG and got a couple minor hits on two others and there were a lot of tracers and RPGs flying around. I mean, how hard is it to actually aim after spending all the time to set up a pair of sequential ambushes? Which is probably the difference in the Ukrainians are actually using the gunsights they helpfully provide on all modern weapons.