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How would they defeat modern earth if they can't deal with guns and generally all the weapons we have?
Adapting.
We've only seen projectile weapons work on the Borg once. Well, twice but across two different timelines so it's whatever on that end. A bunch of borg would die, absolutely, but they'd figure out someway of deflecting the bullets or some Doctor Who-y stuff like excitation of the surface of the bullets so they get jammed when fired.
The entire purpose of shields is to deflect projectiles. They wouldn't need to figure anything out. Their shields would make them invulnerable. The purpose of phasers is to overload the shields so that explosive torpedoes can finish the job. Nukes might give them pause, but I think it's unlikely. A Federation torpedo probably has a higher payload than any of our current nukes.
Far more than a nuke. A photon torpedo is a matter/antimatter reaction. And a quantum torpedo is something next level. There have been episodes where nuclear warheads and lasers were used, and the reaction from the crew was always, they're still using that? I think the laser one it was mentioned that it didn't even get past the navigation shields.
Need those slow projectiles and blades from Dune.