Air kill rewards in naval - What's the point

Just got 33 Mission score for killing 7 aircraft (only 1 was catapult launched).

What’s the point in making ships that are designed for Anti-air duties if playing them as such is not rewarded? Instead, it’s more effective for me to use the AA ships and missiles to attack surface vessels, despite taking out catapult and float aircraft being an important way to prevent losing to points being captured in higher tier matches.

Screencap of 33 Mission Score for 7 kills

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Damaging the aircraft could give most of the score, but I don’t know too much about naval