[Alneyan]

Actually in the Pairs game the same thing happened. (That is, fighters reported being taken) However, they were plainly destroyed according to the battle replay. (Outnumbered fighters do not usually Last long) So I believe it is merely a typo, like the strange occurance where my ships are supposed to have been damaged while they are perfectly fine.

At any rate, you cannot capture units (nor can you retrofit these) so there would be no way to achieve this.