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If you're a poor enough pilot that you're losing shields in a vulture outside of contexts like having multiple ships engaging you, you are doing something wrong.

"Tanking" is a fake concept generated by the abstraction of video game mechanics in older MMOs where tanking was based around aggro management.  However, most combat in Elite is single player against multiple ships.  If you merely fly backwards and hold down the trigger you're flying horrifically and deserve to lose your ship.

Tanking is therefore a fundamentally incorrect concept.  The Vulture is nigh unkillable in 1 v 1 PVE in the right hands due to its superior maneuverability and great sustained firepower.  

If you're losing your cockpit, that literally means you spent enough time staring at the turrets shooting at you.  I have literally never lost my cockpit to stray gunfire, ever.  Damaged, absolutely, but never have I been in a situation where it was so poor that you literally exposed a tiny, low armored ship to such gunfire.

This ship is more than a match for small and some medium ships, but weak against bigger vessels with huge armor.