So your torp bombers come in . I ' m not stupid , so I don ' t drop DF immediately and you have to get fairly close . I hit DF , you lose 24 planes . Either you drop and miss , or you pull back . You wait 40 seconds at which time you ' ve wasted nearly a minute on me already , and drop again . At best , you crossdrop 2 x TB squads , losing 3 more planes minimum . I repair flooding . You bring in dive bombers and get a fire in exchange for another 2 dive bombersYou ' ve done moderate damage , sure . But you ' ve lost a minimum of 8 planes to do a bit of damage , and I can heal all the fire damage and some of the torpedo damage right back up again . And by the time your planes come back , my DF is up again . You need at least 3 of these runs to actually kill me , in which case you ' ve spent about a third of the battle sinking one Atago , in exchange for about 30 of your planes . And during that time , I ' ve still been damaging your ships for 5 minutes . I don ' t consider that worthwhile , do you ? You ' d have done more damage to me , faster , in a cruiser or BB .