Adaption.
The movies like 'Black Hawk down' allow us to see how various groups use their vehicles to fit heavy guns, but it is in the news footage that we glimpse some of what appear at first hand to be silly adaptions. Most common guns are between 12.7 to 20mm and sometimes in pairs.
If they work, they will be used and if not then attempts to capture the real 'McCoy will be made. The problems with this type of small unit warfare is that bulky items such as MBT and other tracked vehicles eventually have to be abandoned, just because they are hard to hide.
Many modern armies around the world employ spacial forces in their counter-measures operations, such the U.S. Seals, Russian Spetnatza and the British SAS. All of these, plus a few others have improvised vehicles that are light to meet their limited capability of lightening strikes.
It is perhaps only the Israelis who operate, as a disguised army and have the best world-wide reputation for being effective.
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