What use are drop tanks?

What’s the point of drop tanks?

Just getting to some of them now - I imagine they are useful in long duration EC games or Sim??

Obviously I know they carry extra fuel - but there seems no point in doing so in AB or RB.

Just as comment before me stated
Min (or low) internal fuel + drop tanks
Once you get to fight, jettison the tanks and you can fight with lighter load which in turn means better performance (turning and acceleration mostly)

lol - thanks for the replies, but I’ve figured it out in the 11 months since I posted that!! :)

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