FIghter missile pods, too powerful?

[Alpha Kodiak]

I think of fighters with missile pods as strike aircraft that need escorts. I usually build two fighter types, one with missile pods and one with some sort of guns. The missile launchers can get a big punch in against ships, while those with guns can engage other fighters as well as finish off surviving ships.

I don't think that they are unbalanced. Remember what one fighter with an Excocet missile did in the Faulklands war?