I would modify that idea a bit and would give Strikes the advantage of an improved core/energy grid/system.
Not much need to buff specific weapons emself but improve the way the Strike makes use of em,
Strikes have more room for tech than scouts, gunships and bombers (Gunships need most of it for their advanced weaponsystems/ammo while scouts are overall more compact. bombers, while have the size they mostly use it for drone/mine storage)
Computersystem:
=> advanced targeting systems improve missle lockon/angle by a small ammount
=> improves energy weapon precision by a small amount
Energycore:
=> slightly improved Energypools/ regeneration rate.
=> having a more stable core inscreases the Resistance to Energydraining / disabling effects making em less effective.
And finally/most important an improved Energygrid / -controlsystem.
=> while only slightly improved on balanced settings the positive AND negative sites of specialized Settings are increased.
Offensive
+improved weapondamage / blasterenergy regen / maybe a small crit/firerate boost.
-Reduced speed / turningrate / shield / debuff-resistance.
Defensive
+improved shieldpool/-regen / debuff-resistance / maybe a small shield damageresistance
-Reduced speed/ turningrate / weapondamage / blasterenergy regen
Engine
+improved speed / turningrate / boostefficence / enginepool regen
-Reduced weapondamage / blasterenergyregen / shield / shieldregen / debuff resistance
Values should range in an area that it has high damageoutput in offensive stance but turns nearly as bad as a bomber while
Defensive should help in shrugging off Ion/interdiction debuffs while still beeing vunerable to ion shielddmg/shield penetration
Engineboost should mostly improve the overall travelspeed (boostduration more than speed) so it's still slower in overall speed but ,caused by boost efficence and pool regen , is able to substain the speed over longer distances (not as much as a enginereplenish/speed scout)
Hope my Textwall doesnt scare everyone away from this Post/Thread and you find intrest in atleast some of the ideas.