It's not difficult to kill militia dropships or tanks with militia swarm launchers. You are most likely trying to kill tier one vehicles fitted with proto level defenses. So yes, it SHOULD take you forever to kill high level vehicles with a free launcher. Invest SP and ISK in a higher level model. Don't go elephant hunting with your 22 rimfire and complain that it's not effective.

If i have a high level tank a militia swarm shouldnot be able to rip through me a proto yes a inbetwen shure if the glued to my ass or theres enough of them im sorry but in this game newbies are purposely put at a disadvantage against higher level players why cause they havent put the time and isk to get where they are unlike cod where u can pick up a m16 and mostlikely beat everyone even if theve been playing for 2 years longer.

Ccp games mimic life very closely i brand new hitman will not be getting many job offers hed be living in a carboard bx begging for a job not a penthouse where the job comes to him on a fancy mac thats able to send it to his suped up lamboginni's nav computer giving him a on the road breifing.

A army for hire fresh in the business will have to prove themselves and would have to do so with aks few men and little to no vehicles they dont get the top gear just cause the cmpition has it

No if i need a third example let me know ill use eve instead of dust then maby anouther dust

Only answer to a militia-fit, modestly skilled Sica (The lowest-teir tank that ANYONE can drive unskilled, costs less than 150,00 isk for a hull) is another tank or staggeringly massed AV infantry. Anything bigger than that (Gunnlogi, etc) demands tanks answer it. This is neither balanced nor fun, as it renders everyone else's specialization options ineffectual. I can't fly dropships, they won't take the punishment from even the lamest of tanks. Missle tanks don't even need to kill me, the gorram missiles will flip me about 30% of the time, which is permanent immobilisation when it doesn't result in a fatal crash.

Tanks need to be scaled back significantly.

Dropships (and everything else) are difficult to assess in the blinding glare of the OP nature of tanks. I actually feel they're a bit underpowered. They can only bring one small turret to bear on a given target at a time (like a LAV), and the homing stingers CANNOT be evaded atm; the only way to avoid impact is to obfuscate LOS. As stated before, missiles are often sufficient to swat the aircraft from the sky without actually having to destroy it on impact. This is likely a balance issue with missiles, however, not dropships. I'm seriously contemplating posting a suggestion that missiles with extreme homing capabilities be fairly weak, so that massed fire is required to represent a threat, with more powerful missiles only able to curve toward a locked target, instead of hammering out two 90-degree banks in rapid succession to hit anything, anytime, anywhere.

I also think there needs to be an aerial craft that can fit a large turret.