Having proper teamwork is the only time I've ever completed missions above the "Hard" difficulty. If you are all spread out and not watching each others' back, you're pretty much fucked.
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Don't play on Hive Worlds as a start, they are like +2 difficulty.
For Rupture bugs, you need medium penetration to kill them from the front, and anti armor for the Rupture Chargers.
Do yourself a favor and watch Eravins videos on the games mechanics, the more you know the easier it is. Also having all ship upgrades helps
Explosions force burrowers to un-burrow, including plasma explosions and stuns (although I've had mixed successes with the latter).
The burrower warriors (= the red bugs) have medium armor (or pen3) on their faces, I don't remember if the Helldivers Mobilize warbond has a pen3 primary but if it does, try that one; otherwise, you can use the MG or the HMG, among other support weapons.
Other than that, it depends on the warbonds you've got so far; what have you got so far?
Burrowers is difficult to handle. I figured out I could throw grenades at them, but that seem kinda expensive.
I'm only at page 5 on Helldivers Mobilize warbond, but I can see that there's an assault rifle with medium armor penetration on page 6, so that's what I'm gonna work towards!
I'm using the R-63 Diligence, but that's not powerful enough. Only got light armor penetration.
The Gas-Harpoon also gets them up if shot at the ground. AND continues to do it's thing for a bit when they come up.
But yeah, you want some medium AP on your primary. It'll make you life a lot easier against bugs.
In that case if you specifically want to build up for the burrower strain missions, you should get the Democratic Detonation warbond as your first warbond (besides, 95% of the playerbase says it's the best one).
It has a grenade pistol with 6+1 shots, which is generally kinda weak (imo), but it can destroy holes/fabs/ships AND poke burrowers, as long as you can hit the ground without the grenade bouncing away.
If a secondary is not enough for you, it has a mini-rocket primary with heavy penetration and shrapnel, and an explosive crossbow with comparable damage but medium pen; the former hits hard (bugs and helldivers alike), the latter is one-handed and you can expect to survive when using it in CQC. Kind of.