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Wha you need to remember is that, with a good pilot, a fighter will beat up a bigger ship any day. Of course, fighter is a relative term. To a Borg Cube, the Neg'Vahr(SP?) Klingon ship is a fighter, to that, an Intrepid, to an Intrepid, the Defiant, and to the Defiant, something like Data's scout ship. That's what Starfleet should mass-produce: a warp-capable, heavily armed, one man fighter.
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I disagree. Any small ship is limited in the power it can produce. Let's take a Peregrine (I assume the Peregrine class to be the fighters from SofA.) versus a Jem'Hadar bug, for example.
The Bug is a much larger vessel. As such, it holds more fuel, and a larger engine. It can put more power into its shields then the Peregrine can put out. You need more then one to overcome the shields. The question is, is it cheaper to build a squadron of fighters, or a starship? The answer depends on how many fighters you need to generate enough energy to break through the shields of your enemy.
We have seen the Federation use fighters for two purposes, so far. The first, in SofA, is to goad the Cardassian ships into chasing them. The second, in "The Changing Face of Evil," is to provide reconnaissance. (Much like those small ships Baloo designed.)
From this limited evidence, it would seem clear that the Peregrines aren't meant to take on capital ships alone.
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But those fighters were going to attack a Borg cube. You would expect them to survive such a thing? It's impossible to determine their capabilities by matching them with a far superior enemy like the Borg.
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The Mars Defense Perimeter is actually composed of unmanned vessels, according to the encyclopedia.
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