drakes will be fine.. but not the best. obviously you'd be better off with something like a tengu or a golem, but skill training for either of those is intensive to say the least. As your going to ignore sheilds on those 2, I'd suggest running an AB and cap recharge fitting with 3-4BCU's and go all out for dps. forget if the drake has a utility high? think it does if so go with a target painter. if not then have your tanking drake swap a launcher for a TP, the bonus from having the TP with 2 fully dps fitted drakes will offset the loss from 1 tank fitted launcher.