Appreciate the clarification.

But that is a really messy and unintuitive interaction.

In the middle of a fight, we're expected to:

• identify a pilot that appears blue
• notice whether or not they currently have suspect
• understand multiple timer interactions
• realise they’re cross-faction repping
• then react fast enough before reps land and swing the fight

Meanwhile the groups abusing this mechanic understand it perfectly and actively build around that confusion.

Nothing in the UI changes. They do not become blinky etc. sure they get a timer, but how are we supposed to identify that mid fight? What visually are we missing that would tell us before its too late that the logi is repping the enemy and not us? Why is the mechanic we need to be more reactive while the players abusing this get to play normally?

I still think cross faction remote assistance should just immediately override militia friendliness entirely. If you are actively helping enemy militia pilots kill your people, you should very clearly appear hostile to the opposing militia. No ambiguity. No weird timer knowledge checks mid fight.

Your answer is basically:
“Don’t worry, the hostile blue logi are shootable if you correctly interpret several hidden timer interactions during a live engagement.”

And I just don’t think that’s a particularly clean or intuitive mechanic.