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Here's some old thoughts on the matter of small firearms written by someone long ago:

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

To be faiiirrrrr, the Ask HN was "most interesting," not "most exciting".

And it is very interesting watching the smaller (comparatively) country of Ukraine hold their own against a much much larger force in large part by using $50 Walmart drones with a grenade duct-taped on.

The large-scale use of cheap drones is going to change warfare tactics forever. It also leads to a bunch of fascinating anti-drone weapons, and then, of course, drones that can evade or are immune to such weapons will follow.

From what I heard it is very exciting for tank crews, but not necessarily in a good way.