I would prefer if the drone flew like the UAVs in battle field 2. and i could shoot people with them, control 1 at a time.

and i don't know how long you've played even but you used to be able to control way more drones, in fact a small group of ships all using drones at once could cause an entire system to lag.

. A request for a drone strike is given and the drones head down to the planet providing a literal airstrike drones streaking across the sky raining fire before shooting back up into orbit.

The problem with drones is DRONEBAYS.Drones take a consirable ammount of m3 (volume) in EVE, and in EVE the very large ships of EVE t(even the frigates) thinking they have enough m3 for dronebays is easy... but these dropsuits barely have room for grenades, and nanohives.
Kinda hard to put even 5m3 (the size of one light drone in eve) dronebay on them on a dropsuit and stay in any fashion pedestrian? (Maybe vehicles should have drones because they have the potential for a drone bay) Or maybe an indfantryman in a dropsuit may have access to a mini-drone with a very specialized function that he can operate remotely. (Like Battlefield 3 or Homeland.) I'm not opposed to drones on the battlefield in DUST but I don't think dropsuits would be the proper delivery mechanism for them.

afterhought regarding dronestrikes: I don't think oribital bombardments will include drones, unless they are a perculiar type of drone that can disspear from eve, and enter dust, and then materialize back in eve. Drones in eve have limited control range, and even if you fit a bunch of range extenders on a ship, I doubt that would be good enough to luanch them at the planet. In fact, I'm still wanting to know the particulars of how orbital strikes work in EVE (I've seen the demo-vids) but the range at which those weapons are firing seems to be at much greater distances than the traditional weapons used in EVE (even with sniper fits) would allow for so... my specualation is a whole different type of weapon is used on ships for orbital bombardments, and will likely be exclusive to that purpose, or limited in terms of what they can do within their native EVE environment. I'm thinking if I send drones I might not get them back (in eve) or that I might only get one shot with them... for capsuleers, drones might be more suited to local point defense, or some other utility, than for orbital stikes. But Dronestrikes (Close airsupprt) made possible by the MCC or someother vehicle type that carried drones inside of dust, would be pretty freaking cool and terrifying at the same time. PLUS DRONES ARE WAY TOO SLOW for orbital bombardments... even the fastest ones while microwarping give pursuit with less speed than missiles and other forms of artiliary. I can't imagine how long the wait time would be on a drone recall from a planet I'm orbiting a few thousand kilometers away from... just impossible. ... A special type of sentry drone, is the only dronetype in EVE that has any chance of becoming an orbital strike asset in my opinion. (Which wouldn't have the really cool effects mentioned above.)

I think that drones should not be flying around shooting people. You shouldn't die to an AI in a PvP match.

Drones should be support, like sensors or jamming.