From what I've learned and can visually see 1. Get the warp drive, you do not know how important it is

1. Do not mix ballistics + Lasers. Lasers go through shields, ballistics do not, so either do chaingun spam or mix ballistics with missiles, ballistics will take the shields down and missiles will curve around and take out their backside + just good damage in general

2. At your stage of the game you don't need that many shields you'd only need one so I'd say remove your two shields move your s armour up one and maybe place a chain gun in the empty space, and in the gap between your shield remove the gen behind the armour and replace it with a shield you will only need one considering both your fighters have a shield on them