with the ifrit just load 4 nukes internally, fly at 10M and hold a ton of MMRs outside to intercept any missiles that happen to be launched, if you use 250KT nukes you can take out a whole group (although you will probably be shot down once you release the nukes)

if you want to be cool do a bombing run with gpo 500's in the ifrit and then run

Cricket and T30 with Lynchpins

this guide is overthinking things. only approach to killing shards is low altitude missile run. never bring 48's they're useless. make all attacks within 5km or the shard will have plenty of time to knock down missiles. Cricket/ T-30 use lynchpins. Revoker, Ifrit, Darkreach use their full 68 load. Chicane runs on a shard are peak smoothbrain only do it for the lols.

great guide
each shard is well worth one sortie alone + firing off some AA or taking multiple shards, and sometimes people don't remove them fast enough making fighting in the center suffering when several fox 2 are being launched from 7km in an open flat space

note about chicanes
its actually fairly easy to weave around their gunfire
then obviously use rockets/atgms, preferably on their front side to make sure the CIWS goes out
then get even closer and let the 30mm go wild

I just spam the sh*t out of lynchpins while flying low, it works

Third method: Get a medusa with 6x ARADs, Radar jaming pods and radome in order to triangulate ships from their radar returns (I'm not sure if it works with default radar). Just fire couple of missiles from like 30-35km and jam the ship so it won't be able to intercept most of your missiles with SARH rockets. Three ARADs are basically a guaranteed kill if there sre no other air defences nearby, you will need more if it's close to ground based AA. You might consider to clear radar trucks nearby first so you can just focus on the ship alone.

I'll update it a bit with renewed methods

A Cricket with 42 Lynchpins or a Compass with 10 Gliding bombs are quite effective too