>>2087573
well if your loiter cheap even if they trade you still trade 280 pts mig against some 350-400 fighter-bomber, and you have 6-8 missiles with plenty of fuel to afterburn (this depend on the timing), but you could rotate plane out to keep good amount of fuel too
if the enemies get buttmad at your loiters and send their own fighters then its more point they have to spend resource on it
sometime if I a fat helicoptor flying in then I will have my cheap mig suicide yolo for it cause they probably have thousand point worth of shits in it otherwise they will use the hawk or littlebird if not
desu the real target for loiter to me are sead planes, personally I always have at least 2 loiters and 1 interceptor now
but yeah drones are actually pretty hard to kill with loiter in practice, enemies dont park their AA that far back so your fighter will end up eating the AA long before they can intercept the sentinel, if you park your plane far enough to be safe then they usually already see your entire frontline before you get to shoot it down
the only one that can do that job well is su-35/57 with long range missile but that is like 350+ instead of 280 pts

what we need is one of these
give them like 20k radar range or something