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Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that
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If you attack it head on you have a very short window of opportunity before it's past you and if you try from the side you'll have to be really really good at geometry. And that thing won't go in a straight line while it's in enemy range.
So, you have to be accurate. Like we've been doing for hundreds of years with projectiles, even non-guided ones. Check.
So... good like as in a computer doing the math? Check.
Bad news friend, they can't turn for shit due to ground effect, and they can't ascend or descend either. There's a reason these things were immediately abandoned as a viable concept after only 3 years in operation and without seeing any combat.