I can’t speak much with regard to how well they do in combat other than to say the NPCs versions that I run across in doing missions aren’t terribly difficult to kill. That said, they can be fun to fly and with their large curved cockpit glass they give an unrivaled view to the pilot and co-pilot. My only other observation is to point out that like many other ships they are outdated. They need some TLC to bring them up to the current state of the art. By all means rent one and try it out, but I can’t recommend spending real money on one at this time.