Forgot to mention that I'm not complaning because of my aching butt. It did get handed over to me though :/
So I decided to use this ability with a comrade of mine in a 2vs2. At the end we re floating like 500+ despite all the strikes we landed on top of the enemy.
I don't deny that there are plenty ways to counter the early shreck/lmg blobs but still that ability is too powerfull imho.
the weakness is supposed to be lack of armour. that disadvantage gets mitigated quite a lot in 2v2 and from 3v3+, virtually no drawbacks as long as your allies are decent.
the only way to reliably counter those single pass strafe is to have american halftrack in aa mode in between the plane and the target. harder to do in practice. soviet quad mount has too little of a AA range to counter single passes.