So, I did a thing.
After beating my head against a wall for about a week over the Christmas break, I finally figured out the internal game structure and how the game modules and colliders interact.
The first result is this modernized A-5 Vigilante created from the RA-5C.
The A-5 borrows the engines from the F-15A. It now carries 4 nuclear-tipped Harpoons that skim at 2750 knots (2 in the rear in this photo and 2 AIM-54NR Pharaoh nuclear-tipped Phoenix missiles converted for ASuW work), has the ECM suite from the EA-6B Prowler, and the sensor suite from the E3 AWACS.
I've also kitted out a Benjamin Frankin Flight 2 class and an Oscar 3 class with tactical nukes just to mix it up. Also towing with damage values around 280-300 for "thermobaric" weapons.
Yeah, I've gone down the rabbit hole.