Some people have mentioned that the UIT shouldn't have as strong of ships, because they aren't fighting wars like the Itani/Serco, but I think you are wrong.

You are the one who is DEAD wrong.

Nobody is arguing that they shouldn't have any combat ships. They definitely need some. However, they are NOT fighting at the same capacity as serco/itani. Therefore they do not need access to overwhelmingly superior combat ships. Anyone with even a pea sized brain agrees to this.

xithricite armor plating was originally a UIT concept

Heavy armor does not equal agile, fast combat ships. To the contrary, in fact. COMMON SENSE. THINK ABOUT WHAT HEAVY THINGS DO TO A SHIP.

UIT has access to enough fantastic combat ships as is. Rev C, Corvult, tung taur, tung maud, hound, rags, and so on. The only reason Sieger opened this thread is that he's getting awfully bored with the existing ships and he thought more variants would bring more excitement. Unfortunately, he's too short-sighted to realize that this so called excitement will burn fast and he'll be back to boredom in no time.

Isn't the Nighthawk what the vulture is based off of? In the desc. For the vulture it says it it is based off of an "Ancient terrestrial design(Known as the Nighthawk)"

:/

Anyhoo back to suggestions.

Exactly. That's why nighthawk is such a dumb name.

Any decent combat ship will have a combat speed of at least 65.

The main things wrong with the UDV now are poor spin control, poor combat thrust, large profile, and poor selection of close combat appropriate large port weapons.

Your suggestion does not address any of these points.