For this use case?
You can more or less use them as missile launchers, where the afterburner on the jet is the "first stage" of the missile.

I mean, if the spare parts for maintenance intervals don't exist, they might as well but a shitty RC controller on the flight stick and launch them off like cruise missiles. That's the real problem with these older planes. You live or die by parts availability. That's why the British navy got so hosed by the F35 delay. They were more or less out of harrier parts by the time the first F35B showed up.

Last of us fixed this and now I can't stand when other games don't have it.
And once you notice it in last of us it's uncanny as fuck.