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I have been told there is a reason why armoured vehicles yeet away as soon as they are under fire.
But I can’t help it to put myself in the position of these soldiers. I can see myself looking after it, whispering “You dick…”
Depending upon the drone, you're probably better off dismounted. If it can kill light armor, you probably don't want to be in it.
This is not an area that I've read much about -- modern land warfare mechanized infantry tactics aren't really an area of interest -- but from what I've seen of US military people doing realism plays in stuff like Arma -- which I will concede is not the most authoritative source -- I think that it's the norm to dismount when one comes under attack in light armor.
Yeah, you don't have the light armor around you, but:
You can get other cover.
Critically, you aren't packed together with the other soldiers. One hit can't kill all of you.
I'll grant that the drone is in the air, and getting overhead cover is probably hard relative to the historical situation, but on the other hand, the drone can probably also move faster than the light armor can.
EDIT: Yeah, this is what I recall seeing for a column of light armor on a road, a herringbone formation being adopted and infantry dismounting and finding cover outside of the vehicles.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/17-18/F1718_5.htm