This won't work because I'll use my Afterburner the moment i hear the sound effect (long before it actually hits btw), and simply out-run all of them.

It's not hard either. Well, unless you use Incubi...

It might work depending on the player who flies the dropship. I have a scout setup with adv swarms and a damage mod (and remotes... but thcts, some of these may hit or he may outfly them, but we always fire a third volley as well. I've had matches where a dropship was circling the objective and ev rytime he came our way he was gone pretty quick as we always landed 2-4 volleys on him. He must have escaped with less than 5% health a dozen times...
It's a difficult debate to finetune. I'd rather see the swarms fly faster so I do get my kills but is that balanced? Even if you react fast with a dropship you're still always gonna get hit at least twice before you fly off. If the chasing swarms then catch up with you, the likelihood of surviving becomes rather small. I wouldn't say that is balanced.
I was thinking, why don't dropships get countermeasures? Make swarms faster, but give pilots the option to drop decoys that attract some, if not all, of the incoming swarms away from the ship. This could be a module you put on your ship rather than a built-in option.
Admittedly I know nothing about dropship slot layouts and what they usually put on there, for all I know you don't have space on a dropship to swap out a module.

First up, this will likely work... Nothing to with co-ordination, just the fact that when the frame-rate drops it becomes stupidly difficult to pilot the dropship. With all those missile coming at once frame lag like you wont believe.

Secondly, every time someone mentions an ads it always includes "afterburners." I sometimes wonder if people who don't pilot can tell if a ship has afterburners going, because I often get told I'm a "scrub" for afterburning away in my Bus from av with my scanner going... See where I went there... Stupid people wont get this.
Point being everyone wants swarms to hit when something that's supposed to counter it is activated... Once again completely ignoring all the other vehicles that don't run them, that can't escape their 'fly to the last known location & then around the object they're hiding behind' targeting.