time to bring another ship class into freelancer eh? Warships or something like that? It cannot be killed by gunboats, it can barely be killed by bombers. To fight it you have to get one of your own or a nice big fleet of bombers and battleships or one of its class:P
The guns in front are only forward firing massive damage slow guns..
Obviously it will not fit through trade lanes or anything like that but hey who cares. Its big. its slow.. it has its advantages, it has it's disadvantages just like any ship to this date in freelancer.