Missions & Complexes

Bombers use battleship weapons, these have a hard time hitting the frigates and destroyers you will encounter in those complexes.

I think your best option at the moment is the Incursus, it does mostly hybrid turret damage and has a bonus to active tanking, which helps in PvE. Then aim for the assault ship frigates later down the line in your skill training.

However, if you feel like spending ISKies and have good drone skills, take a look at the Astero.

Bomber will get chewed up by elite frigs up close. It can be done, but you need to kite with precision. If pve'ing in a bomber, you can swap out WD for web, may help when things go wrong ...and things will go wrong. Yes they will... against frigs anyway.

AF FTW. I'm skilled up on Harpy and Hawk (master4+). I'm currently skilling the Vengeance sitting in my hanger (stack of them heap cheap). AF is basically a mini-cruiser. Flies like a frig but hits like a cruiser, and can pop a BS rat with proper SP and fitting - well it can but having an SB to do it with is much-much faster. I get most use out of the Hawk, rockets do quite well. Frigates train fast, well worth it.

I'll add: I fly a nice assorted selection of frigs, cruisers and BS', frigs are the most "fun". And you can make ISK with them too, so quite worth skilling them up and specializing.

Confirming that indeed, AFs are the way to go for low level DED sites, all of them can do well but if you're Gallente skilled I'd go for the ishkur over the enyo cause the drones give the ishkur a more flexible engagement range. I've even managed to do Guristas DED 4 in a Tristan before with some speed tanking and range kiting, so AFs are definitely capable of doing all the highsec combat sites although a HAC would be much faster for running DED 3-4/10.

Ishkur, Enyo, and Comet can run the 4/10s. The higher ones you might want to contemplate a T3 or HAC.