Ceebees posted:

100Kg bombs are for landed ships, or flying cruisers. 250Kg bombs are for if you really don't like that cruiser. Most of the light/medium cruisers have their bridge on the top, so headcapping them with a star wars trench run bomber flight is aggressively valid.
122mm rockets trade some damage for keeping your planes a little safer than bombs. Because they fire in a shotgun spray, you have some hope of tagging an airborne frigate with them. 340mm rockets are to let your T-7 pilots compensate for something.

Anti-air missiles are for your T-7 jets to shoot down incoming Kh-15's, and other planes if they have nothing better to do. The firing interval is exactly short enough that if you give them two AAMs, they will waste the second before seeing if the first hits.

Guns are a sign that you have done something wrong, and will soon retire the run due to lack of cash.

Balling all of your planes up and throwing them at a target is a good way to get rid of pilots that you don't like! The first wave will get the surprise attack bonus (if available), and everyone else will fly into a wall of AAA.
Sending out planes in groups of 2-3 cheeses the gently caress out of the AI lets all your planes get the surprise attack bonus. You might still eat a Sprint or two on the way in, but you won't scour all of Elaat for replacement airframes after every sortie.

If your planes are aimed at an airborne corvette, call them off. This way lies sadness, airframe loss, and UXO in the desert.