You can scale the Drake back to meta modules without losing much capability - it’s an incredibly forgiving ship because of the huge tank.
Domi with MJD and Wardens a pair of drone link augmentors and omnidirectional tracking links plus a sensor booster should let you engage from 100Km. When the rats close to within 50Km - pick up your sentries and jump. I used a Rattlesnake to run level 4 missions that way as a 6 month old player. Nowadays I prefer to run missions in a Gila or Worm - battleships are slow!