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[Star Trek] If a weapon were to instantly and entirely vaporize a Borg drone upon contact, would other drones be able to adapt to it?

I've always assumed that the Borg were able to adapt to weapons because the technology in their corpses communicate information on how to adapt.  If there were no corpse left and no time to communicate information, would the Borg be able to adapt?
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The Borg ability to adapt comes from their ability to analyse obscene amounts of data at immense speeds. When a drone is hit by a weapon, the corpse does indeed send data to the Collective to be examined so that counter measures can be devised, but so does every other bit of Borg technology in range. So if you shoot one drone and destroy it utterly and instantly, all the other drones nearby are all still scanning as well. It might take them a little longer to adapt since they lack the 'first hand' data but sooner or later they'd create some sort of defense.