As a side note, I remember FH researching this and finding a way to let players shoot off the engines of B-17 bombers. It was never implemented, though.

We thought about it for Warp, and the best we could come up with was that if you made the turrets, hangars, etc. of cruisers separate vehicles carried by the "mother cruiser", that'd make it possible to destroy them.

Blowing up one leg of an ATST, and let gravity do the rest of the work. Sweet

so destroyable child objects that effect performance we have been contemplating for some time.

but we shall see when the first release rolls around, as to exactly what features make it in and what don't