I would stick to the hawk.

The only heavier ship you could get to help you out at this stage would be the Dragon, from one of the kusari battleships. It has 2 more guns, same power rating, torps and more bots/bats, but the hawk handles better.

You might have to load a save game and go back a few steps in order to get it tho.

Just my $0.02, but it could just be the cardamine talking.
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The Barracuda or the Kusari Drake aren't bad choices, either. But I usually use a Hawk.

Try hiding on top of the battleship whenever things start to get hairy. There's a huge blind spot there, and if you get close enough to the hull none of the AI's will be able to shoot you. It's a great place to go when your sheilds and guns need a recharge.

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Rockets: $100,000
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If you have torps heres the trick I used:

flying anti clockwise round the whole shield strafe right constantly, whilst pointing ship to the left. You should glide around the shield in a large circle. Arm you torp launcher PERMANATLY. Fire at first shiled gen, afterburn to next, slow down, fire again. Repeat for first lap, firing sets of torps at all gens.
Un-arm the torp launcher, and repeat using only guns.
I had a Dragon, 2x Wakisahi's, 2x Scramblers, and 2x Tantos.
It helps to take out the Kusari Battleship first too. Torp run, gun run, fly past droping mines over the hull, jet out to about 1200 metres, turn, repeat, dead.

If it wasn't for the inky blackness of the night you wouldn't appreciate the brilliance of the stars...

My mistake on that mission was that I thought it was smaller then it actually was, so I started to fire from a large distance, 2K or so. Obviously that didn't work.
Don't forget to actually target the generators,that makes it a bit easier to hit them.
I didn't care about the BS, I just went back into the large cilinder (re-enforcement thingy) Some radiation though, but not much to worry about.
I just went back and forth, fireing guns/missiles/torps.
Took me sometime, but I managed.

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