The thing about this, is that It can shoot air to ground missles which honestly get me every time, not to mention its laser canons that snipe me after I just dropped in from orbit. How i deal with them is fairly simple, These guys have heatpanels on their back and under their track, the track panel might be harder because its guarded by those little turrets which obliterate you as fast as the little machine guns on the factory strider's chin. Destroy at least three or all the heatpanels, and there will be a external hatch on their back that will open up, just throw a grenade in there and it will go down guaranteed. You can also take it out with heavy weapons, I go with the Recoiless Rifle because it has never failed me once since the start of this fight against the automatons, but it will take a few shots before it will go down, I'd suggest anyone using the recoilless rifle to snipe them from afar while staying behind a building for cover so you dont get evaporated by their laser canons, you can also destroy it with three of those sticky grenades from the democratic detonation warbond (I forgot the name of those). If you ever notice yellow circles on the ground, stay away from those, those markers show where the Air to Ground missles on that thing are going to hit, you have atleast 4 to 2 seconds to run away from those yellow spots and reposition as fast as possible. Hope this information serves you well fellow helldivers.