when you're really min maxing the hell out of missions people love ravens because you can choose what damage type you deal which can provide a significant amount more damage vs. whatever faction you happen to be facing for that mission. it makes a big difference when you're solo running missions and you're trying to break tanks but for multiboxers who can kill stuff in a couple salvos the potential for wasting salvos (ie firing a second wave of missiles while you still have a wave headed toward the target that is going to kill it) ends up being a real tear jerker for efficiency nuts like me. drones provide incredible efficiency not only due to no waste but due to the fact that you dont have to pay for ammo when you use drones. probably the only reason i dont run 26 domis is because stealth bombers would rain on my drone parade so easily i'd have too much of an achilles heel.