I've encountered a level 2 security mission that's giving me some problems. I fly a Caracal for it, and one of the first things that happens to you is you get stasis webbed as soon as the mobs spawn. The ones doing the webbing are a couple of really fast frigates that my heavy missiles just can't seem to hit. Is there any way to deal with this in my Caracal or should I fly something smaller to handle this, like a Kestrel? I've tried drones, but they don't hit hard enough or fast enough (Hobgoblin I).
High Slots:
Heavy Missile Launcher I x 5 (I switch between Scourge Heavy and Inferno Heavy Missiles)
Medium Slots:
Medium Shield Extender x 4,
Small Shield Extender x 1
Low Slots:
Ballistic Control x 2
Best Answer
I'd try a light missile caracal in level 2 missions, if I remember correctly there are mostly smaller enemies in those missions that you'll hit better with smaller weapons. You'll be slower to kill the big ships, but a lot faster for all the small stuff.
You should also change your tank, usually you'd use something like two large shield extenders and 1-2 Adaptive Invulnerability fields, all depending on your fitting skills of course. Small shield extenders are a waste of a slot, you'll always want to oversize them: Medium Shield extender on frigates, large ones on anything bigger.
Warrior drones are the fastest ones, you might want to train Drones to V, so that you can learn Drone interfacing (+20% per level). That makes a huge difference for your drone damage, and you'll need it for the higher level missions in any case.
The Target Navigation Prediction skill also helps with hitting the small ships with missiles, and also the more expensive Guided Missile Precision skill.
Here's an example fit for a missioning Caracal, you can of course downgrade all the T2 modules if you don't have the skills to use them. You can also change the invuls to rat-specific hardeners, that should further improve your tank. Though that should not be really necessary in level 2 missions if you have halfway reasonable skills.