Almost all stats can be further improved in one or another way, all ships tested in this guide were outfitted identically to see the difference between different ships but with vast possibilities to outfit each ship in Elite Universe you can tweak greatly some of those stats, i.e., by making your ship lighter you will increase its top and boost speed, by using power play module called Prismatic Shields you can increase your shield value, by using Hull Reinforcement Packages you can increase ships armor value etc.

Perfomance comparison for 3 biggest ship combat variants in Elite: Dangerous - Anaconda, Imperial Cutter and Federal Corvette. Acceleration to 100m, maximum speed, top boost, deceleration, lateral and vertical thrust acceleration and deceleration, pitching 360 degrees with 0 and 4 pips to ENGines.

In Horizons we have an exclusive variant of Cobra for players who own both Elite: Dangerous and Elite Dangerous: Horizons, or pre-ordered it during an exclusive time period.

Comparing Anaconda vs Imperial Cutter vs Federal Corvette in beta 1.5 Ships update.

In 1.5 update Fer-de-Lance got some serious love: class 6 power plant instead of class 5, improved heat dissipation and better pitch and roll rate.

2 new ship variants - Viper Mk IV and Asp Scout. Both can be used effectively for combat so let's compare them.

One more ship variant we will have in 1.5 ships update - Viper Mk IV, so let's compare it to his smaller brother Viper Mk III.

In 1.5 ships update we will have 2 new ships and 3 variants of existing ships. Let's compare Lakon Keelback which is based on Type 6 and called as an armored transport.

There are 2 new Federal ships available in Close Quarters Combat (CQC) beta 1.4 so let's compare them all.

In 1.4 update we have new ships to play with. 2 Federal ships - Assault and Gunship and one Imperial - Eagle, so let's compare Imperial Eagle vs Eagle. Federal ships i will compare later.