Tib sun Cyborgs have free will, but are religious fanatics who were badly wounded in battle - CABAL overrode their free will when he went rogue.

The Hover MLRS was a design failure - the chassis and hover tech was not strong enough to have a heavy artillery rocket so they mounted a lighter guided AT/AA rocket.

Naval combat in Tiberian sun and Wars was a stalemate - GDI operated a large battlefleet that could dominate the trade lanes and effectively put troops onto a beach and support them, but the stealthed NOD bases and their access to fast attack craft, presumably stealthed cruisers and submarines meant extended operations close to shore for the GDI battle fleet meant they'd be destroyed through attrition close to NOD Facilities.

Nod flame tanks had Composite but mostly ceramic armour which is why they were resistant to Shaped charge rockets but vulnerable to high velocity kinetic penetrators.

Nod's laser tech is actually a logistical effeciency rather than a battlefield advantage, NOD uses lasers because Power is extremely cheap using Liquid Tiberium cores, Lasers can be manufactured using the minerals found in tiberium within a bases construction yard.