Cheap weapons can quickly destroy very expensive vehicles. That's the fact of the matter in present, so I don't see why it would change in the future.

The drop ships are pretty much the helicopters of the future. A $20 million AH-64 attack helicopter can be easily dispatched by an SA-7 (cheap russian shoulder fired anti aircraft missile)that you could probably buy for a couple thousand bucks.

That's the way it should be, too. But drop ship weapons should be much more effective against infantry.

They shouldn't be very survivable, if someone whips out some AA missiles, as a DS driver you should be sh*tting your pants. Likewise you should mop up unprepared enemies.

What I think the DS needs is less survivability, in all honesty, but they also need some kind of expendable countermeasures that the swarms could bite off on if deployed in a timely manner. Like the flares and chaff we have in today's aircraft. And after you sh*t out all your expendables, you need to swing by a supply depot to reload them before you continue on in battle.

6. RDVs RDVs RDVs RDVs. Really? They don't even take damage when they kill me? The slightest tap is an instant death, even if it's on my own team? They appear instantly giving you no time to react to them at all? What drunken monkey decided any of this is a good idea.

I avoid it by cutting my flight time to near nil.

"RARE" -_-