To be sure, the SP game used a lot of creative license.
Having a single wing of fighters able to penetrate a battleships patrol wings and other defenses to launch a single wave of torpedoes that take out the BS in the first pass...
In an ideal world - FL could allow battleships to spawn NPC fighters to help defend itself. In practise, even the best spawn scripts couldnt overcome a misplaced CD that makes them turn on their allies.
Let us see what the next mod version brings - and go from there...