I'm just going to be honest + put down my experiences with them here, not trying to dispute anything.
Hatch breakers. I find they work reasonably well, say 70-80%.
How do I know? Well I've done a lot of UA practice scenarios.
The reason being, the SAP8 mission is the same and I've lost count how many I've done. The SAP8 spawns where a UA would be. ie I did it 3 times last night obtaining 3 SAP8s for Rizal.
Obviously targets shields need to be down otherwise they're destroyed on impact.
I don't use them as first line of attack, they are there as a backup. (if only because I'm hunting in a courier with only 12 cargo space)
I would definitely advise taking them, otherwise there's a risk of you looking at a UA and not having the equipment, not being correctly prepared to obtain it, similar to last last night, the 7ps.
1st line of attack is shooting the cargo hatch to release cargo. If you end up in a position where the hatch is at 0% and there's still cargo in the hold (this isn't uncommon) then whip out the hatch-breakers, in my experience they work very well at that point. I think if you're carrying 4 and use them when shields are down and only just starting to recharge, I think it's close to 95% you'll get what you want (obviously the more then better though).
Be careful about launchingn a breaker, then 10 seconds the shields come back up while your breaker's in mid-flight. Try to launch literally just after you've brought the shields down, wait if you have to.
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